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if my boyfriend sees this comment i need you to make me that fish stew

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i sent it to him btw

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Oct 3Liked by Fran Hoepfner

I’m working on it

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Oct 2Liked by Fran Hoepfner

Stopping at th end of lost s1 is psycho! S2E1 is one of the best moments of the whole show!!! But my feelings on Lost are well documented and yes, it gets worse on every rewatch :) enjoy!!

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Oct 3Liked by Fran Hoepfner

I love LOST, it is pure entertainment. And a hot mess…and very unintentionally funny at times.

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Lost was a cornerstone of my personality when I was in high school, partly because I’d never felt that way about a TV show before and partly because at the time I was living on Oahu (where it was filmed). You’d have Lost sightings everywhere. My dad almost got into a car accident with Elizabeth Mitchell in a parking lot once, and I saw Michael Emerson walking down the street in Honolulu and nearly lost my shit. Anyway, Josh is watching Lost for the first time, he’s about to wrap up season one, and it’s been really fun to watch him go from “this TV show is pretty good” to “I *need* to know what’s in the hatch.” The B plot where Sawyer gets a pair of reading glasses is the most sitcommy shit I’ve seen in a long time.

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One of the craziest parts of Lost is that you get those random sitcom sideplots - I love Sawyer's glasses arc (and Sawyer in general, maybe my favorite on the show by a wide margin). I saw Michael Emerson on the subway the week after I moved out east from Chicago and it was a very "it's all happening" type of moment.

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Oct 3Liked by Fran Hoepfner

fran mugazine...melona popsicles...anne at 13,000 ft. mentioned... this is the most represented i've ever felt in a single email

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Oct 2Liked by Fran Hoepfner

Even though I don't need another mug, I obviously (if you look at my avatar)need *that* mug.

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Oct 2Liked by Fran Hoepfner

Cannot wait to get my mug!

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initials please

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EC..........

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Oct 2Liked by Fran Hoepfner

everyone told me to watch lost for years and then i watched like a fourth of lost and was like, nope!

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Oct 2Liked by Fran Hoepfner

melona so good

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watch Fringe instead

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wait. this

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Lmao I’ve been trying to get my husband to watch Lost and he’s been suggesting I’d like Fringe for just about as long as we’ve known each other. He’s watching Lost now so maybe I should take the Fringe plunge

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Oct 2Liked by Fran Hoepfner

Yes do that

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Oct 2Liked by Fran Hoepfner

Re: Lost... Just watch Station Eleven instead. It's more manageable and not a hot mess.

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unfortunately I watched & loathed station eleven…

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Oct 2Liked by Fran Hoepfner

I will just say that I firmly regret the amount of time invested in watching all of LOST.

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Oct 2Liked by Fran Hoepfner

LOST rw goes down so smooth, even when it "gets bad" its always nice to hear the score.

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Oct 2Liked by Fran Hoepfner

i have sent this newsletter to the nancy fan in my life with the pitch: it's not a nancy mug… but it's not not a nancy mug…

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I need to figure out how to do this without getting sued by the Bushmiller estate

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Oct 2Liked by Fran Hoepfner

this is a question i often ask myself about unofficial merch that breaks containment. like this shirt got worn by two different openers at eras lol https://buggirl200.com/collections/swiftie-collection/products/taylor-rage-tee and interestingly, all her other unofficial taylor merch is gone… but this one remains… also i kind of want it

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you should get it…

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Oct 2Liked by Fran Hoepfner

i need to find out how i owe in deferred taxes 😔

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Oct 2Liked by Fran Hoepfner

I'm so excited for the Fran Mugazine and I'm glad the Nancy design made the cut. My dad will think it is very funny because whenever he sees your writing in the wild he texts me about my "friend with a Nancy tattoo."

I only went on one date in grad school and I left it after the guy called Gregory Peck a "wooden" actor. I think I would be generous now about this take, but maybe not!!

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you were right to do so

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