Posts By A Flower In The Wild

I recently said to a friend, not realizing the gravity and the truth in my words. My current existence seems completely entangled in blackness, yet there was once a time …
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After years, 18 long years, to be exact, of suffering from major menstrual cramps, I had become fed up with the nonsense. I was tired of the menstrual misery-groaning throughout …
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Dear Adam*,

It’s been 3 years since we ended our relationship. It felt as weird typing that as it did saying it. I don’t feel like I miss us, but …
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On my sixteenth birthday, I pulled out a pen and the cleanest piece of paper I could find and I penned a bulleted list titled, “Things to Accomplish by 18″. …
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Thanks TonyaTKO

Parallel to the poetic voice of Toni Morrison, but not the same, Taiye Selasi has this elegant and poetic way of crafting a literary work into a cinema. Full of …
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Thank You Jouelzy!

Today I am so grateful because I have reached a new level of self-love. Now, to some this may seem trivial and mediocre, minute to say the least. But for …
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Cohabitation isn’t a foreign concept. It’s been going on for generations. Some refer to it as “playing house”, others like to call it “shacking up”. I call it a “Hell …
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