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How Did This Gen X Columnist Become the Queen of the Millennial Misfits?
Advice columnist Heather Havrilesky’s rare compassion, irreverent wisdom, and brilliant, neurotic stories are a perfect life raft to 20-somethings treading in a sea of existential anxiety.