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Teresa Giudice’s Father Passes Away At 76 – Perez Hilton

It’s clearly a tough time in Teresa Giudice‘s life right now. The Real Housewives of New Jersey star’s father Giacinto Gorga has passed away on Friday. He was only 76. Teresa took to Instagram today to share the news with her followers, sharing a touching slideshow of pics of her “Papa,” as well as a beautiful tribute. She wrote: “My father, my protector, my hero, God took you early this morning to be with mommy, I saw you peacefully pass & I know you kept fighting for my daughters and I. I have…

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Small talk and ready-made sandwiches: things I don’t miss about normal life | Hadley Freeman

Ive been thinking about Nora Ephrons lists, not because Im dying, but because normal life has, for now, died for all of us Ive been reading a lot of breasts werent bigger. (Honestly, Nora, the breast thing? Its overrated.) When Ephron died in 2012, obituarists were spoiled for choice about which of her writings to quote: a pithy line from Heartburn, her novel about her divorce, or an irresistible bit from every journalist who covered her death quoted from I Remember Nothing, which she wrote when she and almost no…

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Pope calls coronavirus health workers, priests ‘saints next door’

Pope Francis attends a Mass for Holy Thursday, inside St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican on Thursday. Francis celebrated the Holy Week, which was largely empty of faithful because of restrictions aimed at containing the spread of COVID-19, by first honoring priests and medical staff tending to coronavirus patients. (Alessandro Di Meo/Pool Photo via AP) Francis also raised concerns over priests who have been insulted because of the Catholic Church’s child sex-abuse scandals. “Today I carry you in my heart and I carry you to the altar,” he said. “Ugly…

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DQ’s Cotton Candy-Dipped Ice Cream Cone Was Practically Made For Instagram

Courtesy of Dairy Queen Dairy Queen’s Cotton Candy-Dipped Cone Is Coming Soon For A Pastel Treat By Lara Walsh March 11, 2020 Dairy Queen is bringing back a pastel-hued treat that’ll brighten up your Instagram Feed. Dairy Queen’s Cotton Candy-Dipped Cone is coming back soon for 2020, and the dreamy confection has already been spotted at a number of DQ locations nationwide. Ice cream fans, rejoice, because this whimsical baby blue treat will be available through the summer. If you’re a DQ regular, you know that the retailer doesn’t mess…

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I Am Not At All Relaxed by Animal Crossing

My house in Animal Crossing: New Horizons looks like the “guys really live in apartments like this” meme. My landscaping looks like the set of Holes. The host of a Netflix gardening show might issue a begrudging nod toward my patchy garden before they trip on a half-buried tire on their way out and stumble into a bramble of unpruned weeds. Widely lauded—including by WIRED—as the perfect pastime for this quarantine moment, Animal Crossing: New Horizons must mean to be relaxing. It has the telltale signs: chibi animals talking in…

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