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Southern Gentleman

[The Tennis Letter @TheTennisLetter]

Coco Gauff to the crowd after beating Kostyuk in Cincinnati

“I don’t know who was saying ‘I’m in love with the Coco,’ but I like that one. That was a good one. And it’s the right Coco!”

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[Jimmy Driver @jnd_90]

Absolute mad bastard doing this against your former club in League Two.

[N @dearvotion]

Protect me from what I want.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

I needed to move a sofa.

I mentioned this to an American. He said, "You know anybody with a truck?"

I did not know anybody with a truck.

He looked at me with real concern. Not pity. Concern. The way you look at a man who has told you he does not have a name.

"You gotta know somebody with a truck."

I asked how one acquires such a person.

He said, "You just do."

This is the third time I have received that answer in this country. It is the answer to everything here. You just do. There is no process. There is only the eventual fact of having.

He said, "Ask Kevin."

I do not know a Kevin. He said Kevin like I should. He said it the way you say a shared uncle.

I met Kevin four days later. Kevin owns a truck. Kevin does not own a truck for himself. Nobody owns a truck for themselves. Kevin owns a truck for a fifteen mile radius.

Inside I said: THIS MAN HAS TAKEN A VOW. HE DID NOT ANNOUNCE IT. HE SIMPLY PURCHASED A BED AND ACCEPTED THE CONSEQUENCES.

Kevin arrived on Saturday. He brought the truck. He also brought a second man.

I had not asked for a second man.

The second man's name is Tony. Tony came because Kevin came. Tony did not know me. Tony did not ask what we were moving. Tony brought gloves.

They moved the sofa in eleven minutes.

I offered them money. Both of them laughed at the same time, which felt rehearsed and was not.

I asked what I owed them.

Kevin said, "Buy the pizza."

That is the price. That is the entire economy. The truck costs one pizza and the pizza is not negotiable and the pizza is also not expensive and everyone knows what size.

Inside I said: THE FEE IS FIXED ACROSS THE ENTIRE NATION AND WAS SET BY NO ONE.

We ate on the floor because the sofa was against the wall and none of us wanted to be the first to sit on it.

Tony told me his daughter plays soccer. I asked if she is good. He said, "She's aggressive."

I still think about that.

Three weeks later, Kevin texted me.

"You free Sunday? Helping Tony move a fridge."

He did not ask if I wanted to. He informed me of a fridge.

Inside I said: I HAVE BEEN CALLED UP. I DID NOT ENLIST. THE PAPERS WERE FILED ON MY BEHALF.

I went. I moved the fridge. I have no truck. I contributed only arms.

Afterward, a man I had never met asked me if I knew anybody with a truck.

I said, "Yeah, I got a guy."

I have a guy.

I am somebody's guy now, too. Tony has told two people about me.

He describes me as "the guy who's strong for his size."

I have never been prouder of a sentence in my life.

[Homo Deus @La_j0lz]

Cinema almost really died, bro.

But now, everyone around me is excited to see a movie or two. Love it

[piss girl @xtsygirll]

it comes n goes in waves and i cannot swim

[27. @dimvji]

all roads eventually lead back to the interests you had as a child

[EsDeeKid @esdeekidd]

are you climbing this mountain for the world to see you or to see the world

[Jermaine Watkins @JermaineWatkins]

Sounds of Blackness.

Optimistic

[REAL MIL GRAU @realmilgrauu]

Muleke, pode lançar o teste antidoping nesse goleiro

Ele tá tudo, menos puro kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

[Jessica Malone Grider @mrs_g_rider]

I'm not joking even a little bit when I say this is my ideal day.

[benito @iconicDemoe]

please pretend you didn’t hear him!

[Every nigga deserves @ENIGGADESERVES]

Have the courage to be happy, my nigga.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Maya Angelou said it right:

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”

[AFTER REVIEW, WEST HAM NUMBER 19 @LazarusKumi]

Chris Eubank smiling from above

[Annie Eaves @AnnieEaves]

Must have watched this 100 times. It’s oddly the friendliest video you could see.

[Yukina🇩🇿🌸 @Tohkamiya]

I promise you that this quote is WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY worse than whatever you’re expecting before reading it man what the fuck?😭😭

[⚡ @UTDCJ_]

i am crying dawg 😭😭😭

[Athlete Vanity @AthleteVanity]

Ian Wright in Marks and Spencer 📸

Living his best life

[S V 🏆 @Sup3rbobb]

We became so old that Diaby doesn't even make these lists anymore? 😭