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Secret diary of a young and clueless overthinker #2

Secret diary of a young and clueless overthinker #2

Blushing in Tescos and an existential crisis...

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Chelsey Flood
Feb 09, 2025
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As a bonus for paid subscribers and an exercise in humility and discipline for me, I’m transcribing the notebooks I’ve been keeping since I can remember. I’m starting from around when I had graduated from university, aged 21.

Before that the writing is *too* excruciatingly embarrassing even to be amusing and I can’t bear to share it with you. Yet.

Read past me’s private thoughts as I flail around, searching for love, getting drunk a lot and making almost no discernible progress at ‘building a life’…


20th august

have just seen will in tesco’s and he asked me if i’d been in the sun today because i look a bit red… it’s my worst thing! i hate it when people say that - i kind of caught a glimpse of myself in the tesco mirror and i was red faced - for why?

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