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Men only want one thing, and it's beautiful

Men only want one thing, and it's beautiful

Tossing poisonous ideologies overboard

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Christopher Jolma
Mar 19, 2024
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I don’t know what it is about a bonfire, but it makes guys chatty.

A couple of months ago me and some of the boys from my super exclusive monastic fraternity built a fire near the pond. It was bone-crackingly cold outside, and it didn’t take long for all but a few of us to head back inside. (“Nice asceticism, losers!”)

That’s when a perennial bonfire topic came up: women.

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