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Lev Novak

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Sports Betting or: The Last Way To Bleed The Loser

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By Lev Novak
| Medium
Like most things that are bad for me, I like sports betting. I like the excitement of negotiating picks, ideas, and staking claims that you watch with greedy, hopeful eyes. What I like less is the constant fucking losing––the long-shot parlays that fail to shoot, the locks that unlock, the coin-flip picks that always come out tails. But I bet I’ll keep betting. Because the alternative from looking down at my phone is looking out at my life. Like most people, I’m a failure.
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Everything is bad, and you know it

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By Lev Novak
| Medium
A complaint for history It's November 8th, election day, and I'm wearing shorts and a t-shirt in New York City. Global warming is creeping to kill us all, and Republicans (who are eager to kill us, actively and passively) are going to win the midterms. The standard of living has gone down and down in the richest country in the world, and the anger about it is redirected towards minorities.
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What it feels like living with a health anxiety

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By Lev Novak
| The Citizen (Tanzania) Verified
By Lev Novak Like many of her illnesses, 24-year-old Katie diagnosed this one herself. “I struggled with hypochondria for as long as I can remember,” said Katie, a marketing manager. “At summer camp, when I was 10, I had headaches, and I just assumed it was a brain tumor. It felt very real.” As her anxiety built over the years, Katie finally ended up where many self-diagnosers turn first: the Internet.
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