They Took A Tabloid And Made It More Realistic. No Celebrities Included.

Waiting in line to pay for groceries, it’s hard not to notice all the ridiculous tabloid headlines: So-and-so wore shorts yesterday! Who’s cheating on who? People are on diets! As entertaining as it all may be, shouldn’t *real* stories get the kind of attention the pointless ones do?

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Morgan Shoaff

Jul 18, 2014

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