Learning to Delete the Old Versions of My Digital Self
For a long time, I believed you had to keep these records. I knew so little about who I was and what I wanted.
National Treasure
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GleeNotes
kindMad MenGrease
right
Well, I don’t feel that way anymore at all.
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Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya is a lesbian writer of essays, fiction, and pop culture criticism. She is an upcoming fellow for Lambda Literary's Writer's Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices. Her work appears or is forthcoming in McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, The Cut, Vice, Autostraddle, and Catapult.
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