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Today was a first—a nearly unanimous winner for Fucked-up Friday! And it was Dana DuBois, with this absolute doozy of a story.
He Drugged His Pregnant Girlfriend and Forced an Abortion
FAILING UPWARD, N.Y. (The Daily Whatever Press) — For a few years now, I’ve been told by podcasters, op-ed pages, and at least one guy on Hinge that American men are drowning in a loneliness epidemic, and that the rest of us need to be gentler with them. I’ve tried. I’ve tried so fucking hard to give men the benefits of my doubts. Then
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