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Jun 1, 2023Liked by Spencer Orenstein Lequerica

This was a lot of fun! Excellently curated MixTape!

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Jun 2, 2023Liked by Spencer Orenstein Lequerica

Spencer, you continue to amaze me! The way you combine music and writing, weaving in your past and present life, is masterful!

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Jun 1, 2023Liked by Spencer Orenstein Lequerica

Love the idea of connecting songs to the writing - such a great concept! Thanks so much for including me in this gorgeous collection. Have so many more tabs open now to catch up with the rest! Love live the Teenage Dirtbags in all of us. (Blasting out Alkaline Trio as I type!) πŸ€˜πŸΌπŸ’˜

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Jun 2, 2023Liked by Spencer Orenstein Lequerica

The first four paragraph's of Helena Fitzgerald's "the adults in the room" are as good as you've described.

This was a cool comment you shared on it, as well!

"In this particular moment, my greatest hope in life is that, by some stroke of absurd luck, a group of authors here on Substack become a new Lost Generation and that 100 years from now this essay is taught in a university classroom with the same mixture of veneration and envy that someone in some classroom today has teaching The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas."

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Jun 1, 2023Liked by Spencer Orenstein Lequerica

These mixtapes are so darn cool! I’m excited to dig into them. I especially appreciate the time to experience and I leveraged that in the last one more than I expected to

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Jun 1, 2023Liked by Spencer Orenstein Lequerica

That Haem made your neck tingle, then have to go for a long walk, I am very glad.

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