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I Wonder What Olivia Wilde Was Thinking All Summer

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Hunter Harris
Sep 02, 2023
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Olivia Wilde on August 28, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo: Hollywood To You/Star Max/GC Images)

I fall into a severe melancholy every Labor Day weekend — even if summer is not technically over, this is the weekend it announces its end. This week I did not have therapy but I made do with a $7 hibiscus lemonade, just because it’s still summer. I wrote a little about this last year: “It’s still warm in September, temperate in October, reasonable (barely) in November … but there’s still so many more months until we get more summer.”

There’s one recurring thought I’ve had this summer, and I need to reach some sort of closure now that it’s summer’s season finale: What was Olivia Wilde thinking all summer? This summer’s biggest movie was about a beautiful woman breaking out of her utopia that was actually somethi…

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