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Aug 2024
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I failed my A-Levels

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This week on Pretty Lonesome, Madeline tells us about her belief that everything happens for a reason: A full-blown Sabrina Carpenter obsession, the gut punch of dream university rejection, living with certifiably bizarre flatmates, and being literally broke.


 

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