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THANK YOU for being so open and vulnerable in this piece 💕

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it feels good to let it out into the universe 🥰

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i’ve loved reading along with your substack - thank you thank you for sharing so much of yourself in your writing!

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you're so sweet, thank you! I love writing to you <3

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i felt this in my bonesssss! thank you for writing! and here’s to being fluid whatever-we-want-to-be queers who cherish every chance we get to figure ourselves out ❤️

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The beautiful thing about being queer is that we’ll always be growing and evolving together 🤎 and from my experience it keeps getting better and better

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Totally get what you mean about labels feeling like a cage but also home. Felt this!!! Thanks for writing 🫶

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omg how dare the algorithm wait until after I posted my own Chappell piece to show me this? thank you so much for sharing your vulnerability and lovely thoughts ❤️

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LOVED this <3 I really resonated with your piece-- the loneliness of being queer and the deep solace found in the magic that is Chappell's music.

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I feel this so strongly. I’m bisexual but I’m married to a man (who’s also bisexual) but neither of us have had same sex relationships and neither of us really feel like we can be a part of the queer community even though we are! And it’s so isolating and so frustrating. I didn’t come out to my family for awhile because religious reasons and my mother always said that you can’t be Mormon and gay and that she feels so bad for her friends with gay kids and how that’s such a struggle. I don’t think my family views me as queer at all but I feel so queer! I love women! I love exploring the idea of gender and what it means. If anything (God forbid) happens to my husband I know I’ll never be able to date another man. Also Chappell is one of the best musicians on this planet and I love her DEARLY! I’m getting tickets to Govs Ball specifically for her (and Sabrina Carpenter and Carlie Rae Jepsen) but Chappell makes me feel so good and so joyful

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