Overheard in the West Village: one twenty-something white girl to another: “At that point, I didn't know what to do with my life, so I applied to grad school in China, I got in, I showed up, and I was like ‘Ni hao, bitches!!'”
Overheard in the West Village: one twenty-something white girl to another: “At that point, I didn't know what to do with my life, so I applied to grad school in China, I got in, I showed up, and I was like ‘Ni hao, bitches!!'”
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