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Useful Advice for Our Generation

by Emily Rose

I Tips for Drinking Alone

  1. Drink until you don’t feel alone

  2. Drink everytime the loneliness creeps back

  3. Don’t stop drinking until you are numb

  4. Repeat

II Steps for Working Through Sadness

  1. Drink

  2. Repeat

III Tips For Sleeping Alone

  1. Don’t cry

  2. Roll over and be glad there is nobody to steal the blankets

IV How to Accept Being Lonely

  1. Curl up into your fantasies

  2. Hold your head down

  3. Never, ever let the story end

 

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