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Susan Kenney's avatar

Thanks for writing these down and sharing them. My day is lighter because of your writing.

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Alicia's avatar

🥹 I might have to save this comment to refer back to when I don’t feel like writing. ♥️

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Susan Kenney's avatar

And remember, your stories are never overhyped. It isn’t a bad thing to make your readers wait- lots of amazing writers do this. 😎

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Joy Nicholas's avatar

I love your tattoo!! It's perfect. I have a poorly chosen tattoo on my very low back. I wrote about it here. https://joynicholas.substack.com/p/so-i-have-this-tattoo . I haven't worked up the nerve to get another one, but I don't know... after yours... *heart eyes.*

Also, having grown up in Bangladesh, I have some bat stories too. I definitely can relate to your feelings! Footnote three cracked me up. Nope, did not realize that about their feet. Wow.

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Alicia's avatar

Thanks you! I just read your piece—very relatable 😅 How long did you live in Bangladesh??

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Joy Nicholas's avatar

I was born there and stayed until I was almost 11, when we moved to Thailand/ Malaysia for 2.5 years.😊

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Kacie M.'s avatar

I love it!

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Rachel Nevergall's avatar

I gasped when you got to the part where you revealed the letters left behind. Obsessed with this tattoo and your story. Somehow now when I see bats instead of freaking out, I’m going to think of writing.

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Alicia's avatar

You can just yell, “get behind me, Resistance!” P.S. Every time I try to figure out the story behind something, I say to myself, “WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?” and think of you 😉

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Tamika Rybinski's avatar

i always live your stories. i actually didn’t know you had tattoos. my best friend and i had the same plan at 18. in the end the tattoo artist kinda talked us out of it saying they would warp in pregnancy etc... so we got our bellybuttons pierced instead. 😂🤷🏽‍♀️

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Alicia's avatar

Sooo I also got my belly button pierced (a year prior to getting my first tattoo). I was full of good ideas back then 😂

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Tatiana's avatar

I loved this. And 7 yrs in have yet to catch dengue but I know it’s coming for me😅

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Alicia's avatar

I managed to dodge the diseased mosquitos for a decade. There goes my streak...

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Stacy Bronec's avatar

Everyone keeps getting really amazing tattoos and I just want another one. But don’t think I can come up with something creative enough. 😆 I love this story!

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Ashlee Gadd's avatar

Let’s just add this to our Taylor swift meetup agenda. Cakes and cocktails and T Swift and tattoos 😜

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Rachel Nevergall's avatar

I LOVE this addition to the itinerary!

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Alicia's avatar

My only wish is that this most magical meet-up doesn’t happen until after I’m back in the States at the end of June 🙏🏼💫

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Stacy Bronec's avatar

Yes! I just started a group chat with Amy & Rachel to talk some plans... and I named the group Cakes, Cocktails, and Creativity. We can add Tats to the name. 😆😆

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Alicia's avatar

WHAAAAT. A party planning committee has been formed?? Ok, I will be back in the States at the end of June this year. So please don’t let the Cake, Cocktails, and Creativity (+ Tattoo) meet-up happen before then 😅🙏🏼

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Stacy Bronec's avatar

We got you.

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Ashlee Gadd's avatar

I have been waiting for this story since you first teased it and happy to report it did not disappoint. LOVE the tattoo, the tale behind it, and that I knew every single one of the quote sources 😜

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Alicia's avatar

I’m really glad to hear this because after taking for-ev-er to finally sit down and write the story, I was a tad worried I had over-hyped it 😆

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