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Ysabel Yates
Ysabel Yates is a comedy writer and freelance copywriter in New York City. You can find her work in the New Yorker, the New York Times, McSweeney’s, Reductress, and on her website. She’s the co-author of Jokes to Offend Men, and writes the newsletter Humor Science.
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