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Maybe I'll go to a gay bar

Maybe I'll go to a gay bar

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Lauren Hough
Nov 03, 2024
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I don’t like leaving Austin. It feels like living in West Berlin. Surrounded. Under siege. But as long as you stay in town, your little neighborhood, the north side or the south side of the river, the parks where people spread blankets and let their dogs run, the pickleball courts and the vape clouds around Tuesday band practice, the dry weedy lawns and…

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