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The Oscars Red Carpet, Leonardo DiCaprio's Girlfriend Hating Me, and Being 10k in Debt

The Oscars Red Carpet, Leonardo DiCaprio's Girlfriend Hating Me, and Being 10k in Debt

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  This wasn’t my first time attending the Oscars. I had been before as a kid. I don’t remember exactly how old I was… maybe 8 or 9.  I went as my father’s date. I begged to wear this outfit with rainbow monkeys on it from Limited Too. If you don’t remember what the clothing store Limited Too was, well, you really missed out. It was basically a mushroom trip inside a young girl or preteen’s brain with Hilary Duff tracks playing in the background. It was like Claire’s minus the ear piercing station, add clothes and even more glitter. It was the training wheels before you were ready for Ambercombie. Simply put, if you shopped at Limited Too, boys still had cooties. If you went to Ambercromie, you were there to stare at the male model that stood in the front of the store and greeted girls and their mothers with a big ole smile and a 6 pack. You crossed over. You were officially boy crazy.

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