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5 Even More Things That Are Not True

Ruqayyah Ali
3 min readNov 18, 2024

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Thank you so much for all the support I have been receiving for this series, I just had to give you all another one. But first, do you want to read Part 1 and Part 2? Enjoy!

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Note to Baby Ruqayyah: TV characters do not actually die in real life when they die on TV.

Maybe the acting was so good or maybe I just hadn’t a clue but I thought when one got shot in the show, they got shot in real life too.

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Hiding behind something, I used to take a little peek at my dolls, to see if they would move. I think one movie in particular was the cause for it. Nonetheless, I saw no movement, even when I declared loudly I was going away from them.

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I also thought there was a portal to get into the TV so that I could be transported to whatever I was watching. Sorry to say, there is none. I have checked the back of the TV and can confirm it.

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In the UK, we have certain metrics for clothing. For children, the size is the age. But for adults, that no longer applies and for women, the smallest size is usually 6 (but you can get 0, 2 and 4 but that is usually only designer…

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Ruqayyah Ali
Ruqayyah Ali

Written by Ruqayyah Ali

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