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Troi Benjamin

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We’re going on TOUR!!! with ELDER!!!! @elderband I’m so excited. Check out the flyer and the dates. Im honored to share the stage together again✨🤘✨ and huge thanks our amazing friend Troi @hookboy_2 for these sick videos in NY!!

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Take. Me. Back!!!!!

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More Skull Fest 🎞️

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SKULL DUMP 💩 Pt. 2

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All my friends are gorgeous. Happy birthday to the absolute queen @starr.ellis 💘 love you to the moon and back!

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Important announcement! This is a free event for all ages. This is a good event to interact and get to know each other., there will be important workshops where we all can see what our community is doing in the city. Join us and get to know us. #brooklyn #ridgewoodqueens #nyc #nycpunk #nyhardcore

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HOT POST, STAY INSIDE WITH US!!!
COLD BEER, COLD DRINKS, FROZEN PINK LEMONADE. SAVE YOURSELF FROM THE HEAT!! BE SAFE!
DONT USE YOUR KITCHEN @ilikefoodnyc WILL COOK FOR YOU!!
HAPPY HOUR EVERYDAY FROM 4-7.
CHEERS! #bar #ridgewood #queens #beer #whiskey tequila nyc twistedtea founders brooklyn NY
theboysarebackintown shot jagerbomb vodkasoda wine happyhour

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five years in ridgewood, queens ❤️

thank you to everyone i met here and all the places i go for making this little life of mine so special.

and a special thanks to my best friend and roommate, @kira_eliese for sticking around because without you, this wouldn’t be home. love you the mostest.

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Happy 23rd Birthday Clem’s! We are beyond grateful to celebrate another milestone with the people who make this place what it is - incredible staff, loyal regulars, newcomers and the South Side that has supported us from day 1. Cheers to 23 years and many more to come!

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🚨 POSTPONED! NEW DATE TBD!

Celebrating 23 years on Sunday April 26th! 🎉 @kingstonbreezestudios on the grill and @soundbitesnyc on the decks with the early aughts! Drink specials to reflect 2003 prices and more! When a bar is in its 20s you party on its bday every year 🎈

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15 YEARS OF THE ANCHORED INN!!!

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A month ago today I celebrated my 5th year as a sober addict. This was the hardest. In fact, I’d argue that it’s been the hardest year in my life so far because every gut wrenchingly painful thing, every upheaval, each loss that came along was trudged through completely sentient. I had my heart completely and utterly torn to shreds by someone I gave all of myself to, only to end up surviving domestic violence in the end and accumulating a whole new level of damage. I had to terminate a child. I lost important people. Lost my creative community. I started trauma therapy and CPTSD recovery. Experienced new emotional bottoms which were scarier than the ones I used to back in active addiction. Almost checked myself in for mental health. Almost checked myself out of existence. Stopped eating and sleeping for a while. Trust and love felt like dangerous strangers. It was darker than it’s been in a very very long time, y’all.
But then, all at once, there was a change. Like when an ecosystem is devastated by a fire. Everything that once grew and lived in the best way it could is taken down in flames. Burnt down. Dead and gone. …and then, with light, with nourishment from the resources that were meant to support it, with spirit and strength, it grows back. Back better. Stronger. Blossoming in a way it couldn’t before.
That is what my life became.
The most genuine people I’ve been blessed to know showed up to carry me and love me..and in no way transactional whatsoever. Just because they wanted to. And fuck..I came to begin to believe, for the first time in my whole life, that I actually really do deserve that. I’m still not fully comfortable with it, but I’m pushing through that because I’ve come to find that the greatest things in my life have always been preceded by a wall of fear.
This year I got to travel, celebrate my living and dead loved ones, saw my #1 w/a bullet fav band (NIN), started playing piano and writing again. Opened my heart back up. And ate SO much cake in less than 24 hours with my best friend.
Through fearless honesty, open mindedness and willingness I get to have this life.

It’s like Trent always says, “nothing can stop me now.”

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