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       <h1 id="hi-my-name-is-cassie">hi, my name is cassie.</h1>
 <p>I&rsquo;m an English teacher from New York. This is the home of the esoteric bullshit that I am incomprehensibly fixated on, which includes books, video games, music, and thinking way too much about everything.</p>