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<p>Cecilia Lenzen is a freelance writer for the Daily Dot.</p>


Cecilia Lenzen

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tmobile worker says they helped woman find phone

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man wears shoe inserts on date

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tiktok theory that starbucks is bank

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burger king deep fryer overflow

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‘This is why people don’t like working in these jobs’: Man calls McDonald’s to complain he has to make his own Land Air & Sea sandwich in viral TikTok