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<div class="currently"> currently...<br><b>reading:</b> the orange eats creeps,
serious weakness<br><b>watching:</b>star trek: voyager, paradise<br><b>listening to</b>: bloc party, cupcakke</div><div class="h-feed">
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        Hey, I'm Agnes! I'm a writer, artist, hobbyist computerdyke, and real life alien from outer space. This is my personal site and weblog. Feel free to check out what I have here!      </p>
      
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<i>webrings, cliques & more...</i><br><a href="https://lockheart.love/collections/cliques">Language Learning</a> 💚 Japanese, Python & Welsh<br>
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