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Author Archives: Rosie Somers

Rosie is a Junior Lifestyle Editor for The Oxford Blue, specialising in Health and Wellbeing. She studies English at Corpus Christi - when not in the library she can be found socialising with friends at a pub, or binge-watching old episodes of Bake Off.

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by Amy Ellis Winter, Elisabetta Molteni, Sophie Mackenzie, Rosie Somers, Joshua Luther Recido, Veronica Corielli, Teresa Mainzer and Evie Sharp November 8, 2022July 22, 2024
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by Elisabetta Molteni and Rosie Somers November 7, 2022July 22, 2024
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by Lucy Heywood, Leyla Baxman, Ben Blackburn, Guy Ward-Jackson, Amy Ellis Winter, Elisabetta Molteni, Elspeth Knight, Evie Craggs, Frances Dowle, Gioia Grafin Von Donhoff, Hannah-Sarah Selig, Rosie Somers, Sophie Mackenzie, Thomas Britton and Thomas Evans September 17, 2022September 19, 2022

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