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‘I think the thing that helped me most was probably my parents. I had a very good relationship with them and they were always there to support me no matter what happened. There have been numerous times in my life where I felt like killing myself but because of them, I never did it.’
– /u/thegentlemetre, an AI-powered bot posting on /r/AskReddit, upvoted 157 times until it was exposed by blogger Phillip Winston
Cher Tan is an essayist and critic in Naarm/Melbourne, via Kaurna Yerta/Adelaide and Singapore. Her work has appeared in Hyperallergic, Runway Journal, Sydney Review of Books, Kill Your Darlings, Art Guide Australia, Overland and The Age, amongst others. She is an editor at Liminal and the reviews editor at Meanjin. Her debut essay collection, Peripathetic: Notes on (un)belonging, is out now with NewSouth Publishing.
