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@nobrysta

2 years

@homo_no_aware For bishop purposes this is a joke

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@nobrysta

10 months

@wownicebuttdude You ordered an old fashioned at the where :)

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@nobrysta

3 years

Today I met a middle-aged lesbian who saw my rainbow tote bag and had no idea that there were churches that ordained gay people and now she's coming to church on Sunday. Keep standing up proud, babes

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@nobrysta

3 years

Thinking about St Paul and how I would feel if someone built an entire concept of me based on a handful of emails I wrote in widely varying states of exhaustion

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@nobrysta

4 years

I'm not really supposed to tell you all this but the gay agenda is actually to faithfully proclaim the gospel and administer the sacraments

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@nobrysta

10 months

This morning the organist I work with said this is his 50th Christmas at the organ bench. He started when he was 15. Everyone like this tweet and say "Merry Christmas, Gregory"

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@nobrysta

3 years

It's Pride month and I'm a gay priest and if you are part of a queer couple within three hours of Greenville SC who wants to get married I would love to talk to you! (Offer also valid in other, not-Pride months)

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@nobrysta

3 years

First time imposing ashes and I gotta say it's a hell of a thing to remind an octogenarian and a third-grader that they're gonna die in almost the same breath

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@nobrysta

4 years

This year my Lenten practice will be continuing to survive whatever the fuck this all is

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@nobrysta

3 years

I can't quite put my finger on it but there is something so incredibly bourgeoise about churches scheduling public Morning Prayer at 9am or later. Like who is this for?

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@nobrysta

8 months

Me and WHOMST

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@nobrysta

4 months

I think it's nice that we still let straight men get ordained in the Episcopal Church sometimes. Feels pretty open-minded and inclusive

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@nobrysta

26 days

Gone fishin'

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@nobrysta

3 years

and one was a priest, and one was a queen, and one was both, if you know what I mean; for the saints of God are just folk like me, and I mean to be one too

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@nobrysta

4 years

Broke: Wearing a cassock as streetwear to own the libs Woke: Wearing a cassock as streetwear to model simplicity of life Bespoke: Wearing a cassock as streetwear bc the pockets are cavernous, seriously I could have a jar of pickles in here and no one would know, it's great

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@nobrysta

3 years

Blessèd feast to those who celebrate 😌

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@nobrysta

3 years

Reading aloud to one another is good and we should do it more often

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@nobrysta

4 months

sitting in my barber's chair thinking about writing a thesis on how these are doing the same thing

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@nobrysta

2 years

"How are you doing tonight?" I appreciate your kindness but no one ends up in a downtown Atlanta Waffle House at 11pm on Christmas Eve bc that was plan A

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@nobrysta

3 years

Advice from our bishop-elect on social media for clergy: "It's a billboard on the highway, not your journal"

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@nobrysta

1 year

deacon deacon deacon deacon

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@nobrysta

1 year

Hey if you're reading this we said a little prayer for you

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@nobrysta

9 months

sickos YES

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@nobrysta

3 years

You've waited all week: it's Thirst-trap Thursday, the disc-horse free zone where you drop a favorite selfie and we tell you how stunning you are! Don't forget that you're ontologically hot because Jesus loves you, so don't hold out on us

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@nobrysta

3 years

An auto shop that's run by gay men and butch ladies and you get your nails done on the other side while you wait. This idea is free

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@nobrysta

4 years

Clergy folk: I'm being ordained tomorrow - I took yesterday as a quiet day and am making my confession today. What are your hot tips for surviving and thriving in 24 hours before the main event?

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@nobrysta

3 years

Just learned that the Phos Hilaron is the oldest Christian hymn outside of the Bible and I want to weep that we are still saying it every. single. day. How often we miss that the great cloud of witnesses is so desperately near at hand, guiding our very voices

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@nobrysta

3 years

Is this anything?

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@nobrysta

2 years

Got mighty close to pounding the pulpit today, but I tapped it politely like a good Episcopalian

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@nobrysta

2 years

I really have a hard time trusting people who say "Reese's Pieces" that way. You know the one

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@nobrysta

8 months

Six! Queer! Bishops! 🥹🫶

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@nobrysta

3 years

Y'all ever think about how absurdly young the Jesus of the Gospels is?

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@nobrysta

3 years

Happy Pridemas Eve to those who celebrate 🌈

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@nobrysta

3 years

It's Thirst-trap Thursday! Drop your favorite selfie(s) and let us gas you up. You can do one post or release them throughout the day. You can do a retrospective or just snap a quick one right now. NOTW: Any selfies you have are excruciatingly hot by default bc Jesus loves you

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@nobrysta

3 years

DID YOU KNOW? The Epistle of James slaps

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@nobrysta

4 years

Maybe lately you've seen posts abt a young cleric who took her own life. I was friends with her and a lot of people in my world are grieving. Conversations about clergy wellness are a needful thing, but it is confounding to see strangers turning someone I knew into a platform.

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@nobrysta

4 years

Knock knock, it's Holy Saturday and the Son of God is here to kick the devil's ass

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@nobrysta

3 years

Episcopal campus minister checking in. There is so much good, easy work to be done; students are desperately hungry for communities like ours. You want to grow the mainline? Stop abandoning people to be consumed by death-dealing theologies or to leave the Church entirely

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3 years

One of the most important things the church can do today is plant communities on college campuses. Full time, part time, linked to churches. We must reverse the retraction from university ministry which has been budget driven not mission driven.

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@nobrysta

3 months

The Gospel reading in every Catholic, Episcopal, and Lutheran church for like the next month

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oh my god i fucking luv bread

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@nobrysta

2 years

Are we doing women's ordination discourse again? Let me help: I owe my entire faith and vocation to women priests and I try to emulate them every day of my life. The Church would not exist without the countless women who lead and minister whether that's formally recognized or not

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@nobrysta

20 days

Sitting in a church where Sufjan is known to have worshipped and trying to figure out how to tell if a pew is a third class relic

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@nobrysta

2 years

The church I visited today was celebrating the retirement of their music director after 32 years and when the rector said, "Your voice rings in the ears of a generation of Christians; they know the music because you have sung it," I started crying.

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@nobrysta

2 years

Jesus says trans rights, have a nice day

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@nobrysta

3 years

How it started, how it's going. Happy Reformation Day!

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@nobrysta

3 years

You know how sometimes Nickelodeon would sometimes halt all their programming for a day and literally just tell kids to go outside? I think Twitter should do that once in a while. Just replace the whole site with tasteful "take a breath and touch grass" campaign

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@nobrysta

3 years

A gay person who has hands laid on them by a bishop after their baptism is a confirmed homosexual

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@nobrysta

3 years

The vet asked me to upload a picture of Matilda so obviously I had to hit em with a glamor shot

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@nobrysta

3 years

Morning y'all! It's Thirst-trap Thursday, the day where we cease from discoursing and gas each other up via the modern wonder that is the selfie. Remember that God thinks you're hot bc God made you and loves you, so all selfies are thirst-traps! Have fun and don't be weird

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@nobrysta

1 month

biblical literalism but only for the book of James

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@nobrysta

4 years

Stray thought: the notion that young aspirants to ordination need to go "gain life experience" betrays a stunning lack of confidence in the worthiness of the Church's work and vision. Is being a deacon or priest in your 20s not valuable experience?

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@nobrysta

1 year

Bucket list checkmark: got called a false prophet by a street preacher for wearing my clericals to Pride 😎🏳️‍🌈

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@nobrysta

1 year

I'm grumpy so here's a hot take: individual communion wafers destroy the sign value of the sacrament and I would happily see all of them disappear forever

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@nobrysta

8 months

Dropped my car at the shop and a heavily tattooed and mulleted mechanic gave me a ride. We talked about church the whole way. "I don't consider myself a Christian, but I think I'd be Episcopalian if I did." I offered him ashes since he didn't make it on Wednesday. What a life

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@nobrysta

3 years

We sang "I am the Bread of Life" at communion and it was one of the more Spirit-filled moments I've witnessed in a while, haters to the right please

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@nobrysta

2 years

Personally, I look forward to amending the Prayer Book to say that only gay couples can get married

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@nobrysta

4 months

This week the Episcopal Church elected people in their 40s to all three of our top leadership positions. Let's ride! #gc81

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@nobrysta

3 years

Holy Spirit gave me a line that wasn't in my notes and made me cry in the pulpit today, very cool God we serve

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@nobrysta

2 months

Not weeping in church challenge Sainte-Chapelle: 1 Noah: 0

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@nobrysta

3 years

Millennial elder here: there's something about :( that 🙁 simply fails to capture

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@nobrysta

3 years

Having an extremely normal one with @rosesokay and @PotentiaEtActus

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@nobrysta

3 years

Concept: every Episcopalian should be expected to have a Bible, BCP, and Hymnal for each person in their home, *and they should expect their parishes to give them these things*

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@nobrysta

3 years

You've heard of Wordle, but have you heard of the guy whose word'll change your life? Turn in your Bible to

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@nobrysta

8 months

🟢 This year for Lent I gave up being an inquirer with a monastic order after 15 months and it was like the gentlest breakup with someone you're still very fond of and I'll probably cry about it this weekend

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@nobrysta

4 years

If you grew up in a church that didn't ordain women, I'm curious: when was the first time you experienced an ordained woman leading worship?

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@nobrysta

4 years

Hi I know it's Jesus's big day and all but it's also my 33rd birthday and I feel like that's auspicious so I bought myself a cupcake

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@nobrysta

8 months

Gays are like "she saved my life" and it's the priest they knew in their 20s who everyone literally called "Mother"

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@nobrysta

2 years

Very excited to share that in August I'll be joining @TexasDiocese as campus missioner at the Episcopal Student Center of Austin! I'll be serving the students of @UTAustin and supporting parishes throughout the Austin Convocation in their ministry with colleges

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@nobrysta

3 years

You know how once in a while it becomes evident that a given entity doesn't have a single person under 35 in its marketing department? It's time to talk about the PeachPass logo

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@nobrysta

3 years

Salt and vinegar chips bc I love to punch myself in the tongue repeatedly, it's called an ascetic discipline

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@nobrysta

3 years

Might mess around and invent the KISS model of ministry (Keep It Simple, Saints) where we don't try to do anything else until we get good at Eucharist, the Daily Office, and Bible study

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@nobrysta

4 years

Wow, hello, new followers! Welcome to whatever this is. I've been an Episcopal priest (?!) for four days and this morning I celebrated the Eucharist for the first time. I'm also gay. All of these things make me very happy! Some more things by way of introduction:

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@nobrysta

1 year

Someone else got all the good pictures bc I was ~in the moment~ but hallelujah anyhow. Happy Pride, Austin

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@nobrysta

1 year

I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth. I believe in Jesus Christ, his only son, our Lord. He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spiritand born of the Virgin Mary. He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried. He desce

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1 year

what’s your most woo woo belief?

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@nobrysta

3 years

From the existence of horny jail we can reasonably infer horny probation and horny community service. In this essay I will

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@nobrysta

4 years

Hi! There's a pretty new BCP from InterVaristy Press. I love pretty books and the BCP. I get it. Before you spend money on this, please remember that InterVaristy opposes equal access to marriage and has advocated for conversion therapy. Your LGBTQ siblings are watching. Thanks.

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@nobrysta

3 years

The most relatable lyric on the Olivia Rodrigo album is "I can't even parallel park," like and RT if you agree

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@nobrysta

9 months

The people of God in Waco send you greeting

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@nobrysta

3 years

It seems unlikely that I would be a practicing Christian today, let alone a full-blown priest, if not for the work of women priests. My story is unintelligible without them, every step of the way. To my mothers in the faith and sisters in ministry: thank you, thank you, thank you

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@nobrysta

3 years

Still not used to getting "Father"-ed in the wild by strangers. I am simply trying to buy an iced coffee and vibe, please do not perceive me

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@nobrysta

2 years

The Archbishop is abusing his moral authority and he will have to answer for it on the last day, but ALSO I have fully come around on the "some coot in London actually has less than no pull in TEC and we shouldn't pretend he does" camp in a way I wasn't a few years ago

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@nobrysta

4 months

smh the Methodists vote to let the gays in and just look what happens

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4 months

The Welch’s grape juice to Welch’s vodka transfusion pipeline is INSANE

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@nobrysta

3 years

I'm tearing down roadside neo-Nazi propaganda and my veins are filled with unfiltered rage, how's your Friday evening

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@nobrysta

1 year

Did you know you can start a poll in someone else's replies? Gonna save this uniquely unhinged behavior for a special occasion

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@nobrysta

2 years

We got a label maker.

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@nobrysta

3 years

Welcome to Thrilled-to-See-You Thursday! No matter how frilled-up or frazzled you're feeling, this is the discourse-free zone where you share a selfie and we tell you just how gorgeous you are. God loves you and thinks you look fantastic and so do we. Have fun!

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@nobrysta

2 years

My diocese has developed an inclusive-language version of the Eucharist and they just... fixed Prayer C without sending it to a committee for SIX YEARS

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@nobrysta

9 months

spending the day in a black dress reminding strangers they're gonna die

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10 months

so… feb 14th. How it’s looking for y’all?

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@nobrysta

2 years

The One Year Bible is a lectionary for evangelicals, change my mind

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@nobrysta

8 months

Our diocese put out a call for high school and college students to spend a weekend asking questions about what God is calling them to do with their lives, and 19 showed up. Pray for them and their retreat leaders (🙋) as they tackle this big and holy work tomorrow!

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@nobrysta

4 years

Tomorrow my parish will be celebrating the Eucharist for the first time since March. Please pray that it is a safe and holy moment for us all

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@nobrysta

3 years

Leaping lizards it's my 10,000th tweet AND it's Thirst-trap Thursday? Let's see your beautiful selves so we can tell you just how gorgeous you are. Don't forget that the core tenet of the day is ontological hotness in Christ so don't be afraid to boast about what God has done

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@nobrysta

3 years

And now these three remain: Tums, melatonin, and ibuprofen. But the greatest of these is ibuprofen

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@nobrysta

3 years

I think a lot about the time when I was in a workshop with an Episcopal church planter in NC and she remarked that in her ministry Jesus is her "why" and TEC is her "how." One of those tiny moments that shifted my entire world

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@nobrysta

9 months

Mixed orientation marriage (Anglo-Catholic and low church)

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@nobrysta

1 year

After a few years off, engaging my favorite Independence Day tradition: pointedly refusing to sing America the Beautiful at the end of church

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@nobrysta

4 years

WHILE I MAINTAIN that violet is the superior Advent color, I find myself for the first time in a parish that uses blue and really it's not the worst thing, so I invite you to come on this growth journey with me

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@nobrysta

1 year

Stepped out of the student center to find a sobbing freshman on our doorstep, and when I tell you my mom mode activated so hard (everything is fine, it's just hot and being 18 is hard)

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@nobrysta

3 years

DID YOU KNOW? When Anglicans talk about the Queen of Heaven they actually mean Elizabeth I, supreme governor of the Church Triumphant

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@nobrysta

4 years

You can always tell the Yankees by how they misplace the apostrophe in "y'all"

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@nobrysta

3 years

Eleven years ago the world got to meet me. As I recall, my then-boyfriend and I were texting on the evening of October 10 when one of us realized that the next day was National Coming Out Day, and we impulsively decided it was time to change our relationship status on Facebook.

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1 year

V proud of this banner I made

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