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Depp vs. Heard and the Incessant

Stream of Opinions

I was eating breakfast and watching the news, and I found out

that Johnny Depp was suing Amber Heard for defamation. I

caught this story in the middle, and I was curious to know more,
not that I particularly cared about Johnny Depp or Amber

Heard but I was just really curious. So, I looked up some news

articles from the New York Times and the New Yorker and I

was now up to speed. I did not know at this moment that I was

about to get caught in a whirlwind discussion with my fellow
brothers on the internet about the private lives of two people.

I was bombarded on all social media platforms, and I went

Heena S through all the phases of getting hooked to a story.
2019 - 23, ECE
Number one is lying to myself and telling myself that I don't

care and scrolling past every mention of this trial

Number two is slowly scrolling past these mentions, and the

speed of my scrolling these mentions lower every day.

Number three is accepting that I am one of the lowly crowds,
interested in the details of a marriage falling to pieces,

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