• Consigning your Bat Mitzvah dress will make you feel like more of an adult than the actual Bat Mitzvah did.
  • You will realize you forgot these books by your bed: No One Belongs Here More Than You (Miranda July), The Metamorphasis (Franz Kafka), The Dharma Bums (Jack Kerouac), Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll), Frida (Barbara Mujica)
  • And add these ones to the pile: Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides), Manifesta (Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards)
  • Tofu, veggies, and rice tastes better when Linda makes it than when Emily's Garden does.
  • Dance-y, party-y, pop-y music sounds 2,000 times better when listened to in a car. Preferably a '94 Honda Accord.
  • Salvation Army will supply you with an infinite selection of florals and rompers.
  • Upon placing these florals in your suitcase, you will feel overwhelmed and extraordinarily happy at the same time.
  • After trying on denim cutoffs circa Hollis flea market August 2009 you will realize that they are actually the length of denim underwear.
  • Upon wearing perfume oil, strangers will tell you that you smell like incense (specifically, "You smell like the incense at Headlines.")
  • TV commercials will make you realize that the idea of gender created in a gender studies classroom is a far cry from the "Mom + Tide bleach/OxyClean/vacuuming/etc." stereotypes broadcasted to the rest of the world.
  • Radio commercials will enforce this as well.
  • And magazines.
  • You will realize that gray NH days are different from gray NY days.
  • You will realize that sunny days in both states make you equally as happy.
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