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Stop fuckin around with the cellophane and plastic snacks and just open the fucking thing! Rifling through a tiny hole making that goddamn crinkling sound is maddening. Make the hole bigger and pour ...

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I’m at a family event — a happy one — this week. This column originally appeared in July 2013. Back with a new Savage Love ...