Larissa

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A joke can be many things: a simple play on words to delight another person, a break from the mundanity of a day, or a code to let someone know that you know what they’re up to, that you approve, that you disapprove. Being funny is a way of being indirect too, skirting around the ugly feelings, not saying what you mean because what you mean is too big, too painful. In our case, the rounds of messages were really saying, Nothing bad will ever happen to you, it simply cannot, because we all love you so much.
Maeve in America: Essays by a Girl from Somewhere Else
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