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Extra, Extra: Is It "Normal" To Live With A Roommate At 32?
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Ben Yakas
Published May 23, 2014
Modified May 23, 2014
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Published May 23, 2014
Modified May 23, 2014
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- Neko Case doesn't appreciate getting the Peggy Olsen treatment.
- A Brooklyn man allegedly punched a woman in the face while playing the "knockout" game, but the victim's friend chased him down, put him in a chokehold and forced him to apologize.
- Is it statistically "normal" to have a roommate at 32? (FWIW, the Native New Yorker says having a roommate is fine at any age).
- Sometimes we all wish we were still four-years-old kid, sometimes we all wish.
- Edgar Wright has pulled out of Ant-Man.
- A Brooklyn Law School staffer claims she was fired for getting pregnant, because her supervisor reasoned that the woman’s "brain won’t operate properly after giving birth."
- Police are looking for a Queens slashing suspect who goes by the name "Slime."
- A lion, tiger and bear are best friends forever, just like the prophecy foretold.
- A professor who fell 70 feet into an icy crevasse on a Himalayan mountain took video of his escape.
- And finally, here is a magical land of treadmill-walking bulldogs:
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