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In your twenties

and think you’ve

got “nothing

but time”? You

do - but you’ve

got to use it

wisely

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here’s a scene in the

first episode of Girls

where Shoshanna is

reading from a dating

advice book that refers to “the

ladies”. Hannah asks, “Who are

‘the ladies’?” “Obvi, we’re the

ladies,” Shosh says. Jessa and

Hannah both object – “I don’t

want to be ‘the ladies’,” says

Jessa. “You are,” says Shosh.

“I’m a lady, she’s a lady, you’re

a lady. We’re the ladies.”

Girls is a show that’s all

about the moment between

adolescence and true adulthood,

and its characters have come to

define this limbo period. They

have dead-end relationships,

dud jobs and fights that make

the Pretty Little Liars girls seem

like Enid Blyton characters.

Like a lot of us in our twenties,

they’re not ready to be “the

ladies”. In the immortal words

of one Britney Spears, they’re

not girls, not yet women. And

that’s why we love the show.

It’s real. It makes us feel OK

about our not-so-sorted lives.

Your shit’s a bit all over the

place, but hey, you’re in your

twenties, that’s fine right? No

one else has their life sorted.

That’s not strictly true. >

MOST

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