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The decision came after I stumbled into an urgent care clinic in the Chicago neighborhood I lived in, after hours of lying on the couch in my apartment feeling weak and severely dehydrated yet unable to keep down even sips of water. 5/2/20 11:44 AM 2 Television 5/2/20 Television 5/2/20 Television HBO Renews Insecure , Promising Us More Issa & Molly Shenanigans After 2020 Ishena Robinson 2 2 Halfway through what already feels like a too-short season of Insecure , the addictively funny show on HBO about Black millennials living in Los Angeles, has secured a fifth season. 5/2/20 10:29 AM 7 Media 5/2/20 Media 5/2/20 Media Trevor Noah Is Paying Daily Show Crew Furloughed by COVID-19 Out of His Own Pocket Ishena Robinson 63 7 Trevor Noah reminds me of Barack Obama in a lot of ways. 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