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  1. Issue · Aug 20, 2026

    marissa, mischa, and me (opens the original)

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    When we meet Marissa Cooper, she’s sixteen, a sophomore in high school.1 She’s the prototypical girl next door: pretty, charming, and sweet. But in typical teenage soap opera fashion, she has more than her fair share of troubles. “So your boyfriend cheated on you,” loyal bestie Summer recaps, presumably for the audience’s benefit. “And yes, you almost died in Mexico. And [there’s] the scandal with your dad…” It’s a litany of L’s that Marissa, keenly aware of her status at the top of the s

  2. Issue · Aug 7, 2026

    apples to oranges (opens the original)

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    At a recent meeting of my local library’s cinema club, one participant copped to a bad habit that we’ve probably all been guilty of at one time or another. With a look on her face somewhere between sheepish and stubborn, she admitted that though she wouldn’t say that she liked our assigned movie—just wait, I’ll talk about it below—it did keep her entertained enough to stay off her phone for a couple of hours. “I’m usually crushing candy,” she joked, referring to that once hugely popular mobile g

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