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This next story comes from Alicia.

One day she bags a dude at the local chicken spot and against her better judgment decides to go on the date.

Here's what happened. I want you to breathe all this.

You're listening to you had me at black.

Bla, black. Light in the heart. You had me at Black. Black.

Light in the heart of the city.

Man, listen, man.

Yeah.

Yeah.

This is you have and black and we live baby.

At this time in my life, I'm going to

at this time in my life, I'm going through different emotional changes and finding out who I am as a recent graduate from college and a young adult.

And so I'm a young black woman, I'm a creative, I'm a writer writer and I'm trying to make sense of the

culture shock that I'm currently living in Kentucky coming from up north when it's

aggressive it's completely different and I'm super green to what Kentucky is and this new community where I found myself and I'm super poor and overwhelmed by the amount of work that I have back in my dorm room on campus and I'm a bit bored with reading and I also

missed my dating life that I had up north and the convenience of meat and decent men.

And so on this particular day after studying I decided to go check out a chicken spot

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