Gracie Abrams Just Gave Her Boyfriend, Paul Mescal, a Very Meta Shoutout

William Shakespeare, who declared in ‘Hamlet’ that “brevity is the soul of wit,” surely would’ve gotten a kick out of Gracie Abrams’s T-shirt.

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According to Vogue’s source item, Gracie Abrams Just Gave Her Boyfriend, Paul Mescal, a Very Meta Shoutout, William Shakespeare, who declared in ‘Hamlet’ that “brevity is the soul of wit,” surely would’ve gotten a kick out of Gracie Abrams’s T-shirt.

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