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The honesty of Susan Orlean’s drunk tweets were a balm for my pressure-cooked soul – Sydney Morning Herald
I, for one, felt a mariachi band dance through my heart when I read Orlean’s tweets.
The public was charmed. Thousands of people responded, with everything from hangover advice to offers of friendship (from, among others, American comedian Kathy Griffin), and appreciation for her writerly abandon and truly joyous tweets (care of Australian political writer Annabel Crabb).
The overwhelming feeling among responders, though, was profound gratitude that they had found a new friend who understood exactly what they were going through. I, for one, felt a mariachi band dance through my…
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