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It’s a never-ending song loop of ♪ work suffer ♪ work suffer ♪ and the stop button can’t be hit until retirement in 30 more years. When I heard Jin sing, “I just wanna be happier²” for the first time, I cried.
How Has BTS+ARMY Redefined Fandom for Me?
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Adipoli (അടിപ ൊളി, Malayalam word), or the Korean equivalent daebak is a concept that really doesn’t have a good English interpretation. It is an expression we Malayalees use to describe an experience that is wonderful, crazy, surprising, and loving at the same time.
90002 Parallax: BE and “My Time”
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Where institutionalized varieties lack the range to grapple with the still-unknown universes of time and space, Black English accounts for the magic of being human and being spirit all at once. When we walk to the store, for instance, I walk, you walk, they walk, she walk, he walk. We exist forever, and we exist together.
Counting Grey Rhinos
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But there is beauty in knowing that the present is always changing, and in its incompleteness is the potential for something better to be written.
London, Seoul, and Southwest Virginia — Across Homes with BTS
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BTS were my watering can; poured on, they enabled all the existing and new and ever-widening interests to grow.
A Serendipitous Encounter
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I haven’t been here a long time, but I’m never, ever leaving, and one thing is for sure, BTS will always have ARMY right behind them.