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Galentine's

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  I was watching Parks and Recreation last year, when I came across this new concept called Galentine's Day. While this holiday may have been around for a long time (I think?), it definitely became popular and came into the mainstream after it was introduced by Leslie Knope in Parks and Recreation  (S2 Ep18- if you wanna watch this, hehe).   Celebrated on 13th February, a day before the most romantic day of the year, Galentine's day centers on the love for the gal pals in your life and celebrates female friendships.  Having studied in an all-girls school for 14 years of my life, it can be assumed that I had girl friends since my childhood. BUT. That wasn't the case. Till middle school, I did not have a close knit group of girl friends. I saw myself as not too girly and would pride myself for having more guy friends than girls since I firmly believed that 'all girls were drama' and that 'I wasn't like the other girls'. I thought I was very cool. But I was...

Nobody asked for my review- Derry Girls

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Derry Girls was something that I wanted to watch for the longest time.  As someone who enjoys watching teenage girl drama, and series revolving around female friendships, I knew I had to watch this one ASAP once I found out that the third and the final season was going to release in October 2022. I kept my saturday free for this and opened Netflix to binge watch. By saturday evening, I had finished watching all three seasons together in one sitting, which was quite easy since every season consisted of 6 episodes, that lasted around 25 mins each. As soon as I finished watching it, I knew I had to write this review so you all could be convinced to watch this! Read on to find out why you will like it as well. Derry Girls is a British sit-com, created and written by Lisa McGee, It's set in Ireland during the Troubles,   an almost three-decade long nationalist and political time of strife in Northern Ireland (And yes, I did google about the Troubles because  obvious...