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Prepare for the Ultimate Gaslighting*

You are not crazy, my friends.

Los Angeles, pollution-free. Photo: Gabriel Duarte

This is the first part of a series of essays. Read Part II here.

*Gaslighting, if you don’t know the word, is defined as manipulation into doubting your own sanity; as in, Carl made Mary think she was crazy, even though she clearly caught him cheating. He gaslit her.

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Julio Vincent Gambuto

Julio Vincent Gambuto

Weekly Contributor // Writer/Director/NYC/Guncle/Author of “Prepare for the Ultimate Gaslighting”/Book debut from Avid Reader Press 2023 // www.juliovincent.com

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