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@AshleyFetters

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New York, NY
Joined March 2009

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    hey it's me, your friend who ignores everything going on in the group text and then chimes in every six days with a single "omg"

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  2. Sep 1

    [extremely Foreigner voice] IN-BOX ZEROOOO

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  3. Aug 31
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  4. Aug 31

    "Schaefer wrote the text in a deliberate, reassuring tone, one she called the 'trusted, cool aunt.'" I absolutely love this retrospective on 'The Care and Keeping of You,' a book I still think about *surprisingly* often:

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  5. Aug 29

    How exactly are reported cases of STDs at an all-time high when Americans are having less sex than they have in decades? My story for :

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  6. Aug 29

    "When I started [teaching], students weren’t really interested or even knowledgeable about basic current issues. Today, kids talk about current events and issues like it’s high-school gossip."

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    Aug 28

    Ugh reporting : writing :: drinking : hangovers

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  8. Aug 28

    Wrote for about the emerging blueprint for how and when to reopen a school after a school shooting:

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  9. Aug 27

    “Very often a school [that’s had a school shooting] will call the one that had the one before.” My story on the emerging blueprint for when and how to reopen a school after a school shooting:

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    Aug 24

    Friends, I want your help on a story I'm writing—it's all about the open-24-hours hangout spots on America's college campuses. If you're an undergrad, tell me where you and your classmates stay up all night at afetters at the atlantic dot com!

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  11. Aug 27

    “On my way home, S. calls and tells me about a total stranger who just yelled at him in the bodega. We laugh, and in bed later we make up a song about her and then high five before we fall asleep”

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  12. Aug 27

    a NYMag Sex Diary, but it’s just 7 days’ worth of dumb in-jokes between the subject and their long-term monogamous partner

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  13. Aug 26

    the biggest problem when my brother and I play RockBand with his kids is that his kids always want to be in our band

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  14. Aug 25

    Wrote about how the Internet and SEO are popularizing a married-name format that used to be rare in the United States:

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  15. Aug 24
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  16. Aug 24

    I'm not a regular reporter I'm a cool reporter I promise

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  17. Aug 24

    Friends, I want your help on a story I'm writing—it's all about the open-24-hours hangout spots on America's college campuses. If you're an undergrad, tell me where you and your classmates stay up all night at afetters at the atlantic dot com!

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  18. Aug 23

    The cool part of having a full-time job in an office with good snacks is that I can maintain my "write 200 words, eat something" freelance habit but now in front of a whole bunch of other people

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  19. Retweeted
    Aug 23

    This is amazing. , who used to cover the mafia, went back through decades-old notebooks to find why reminded him so much of his old beat.

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  20. Retweeted
    Aug 21

    Here's what we've (specifically ) covered so far—drowning in subway tunnels, falling through sidewalk doors, having an A/C fall on you, and more!!!!

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    Aug 21

    Hey New Yorkers, do you have a specific NY-related fear or anxiety? (Say, for example, being pushed on to subway tracks, and how the hell you get back up if it ever happens.) Taking submissions for a column—we'll either confirm your worst fears, or debunk them!

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