personal life

I’m 5’3 and I weigh about 113 pounds hmmm give or take. I have insecurities about my body frame. Now while most wish they could be my size, I …
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I’m sitting here at the McCarran International Airport looking at a picture of myself from 2011. Then I begin to reflect on the me I no longer recognize..

That …
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I can’t, and won’t apologize for being bougie. Yea, I said it. But wait, let me explain. Let’s start from the beginning. What is bougie?

Bougie (pronounced boo-jee) is …
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Nowadays 20-something virgins are as extinct as dinosaurs…or are they?

In this day and age where everything is over-sexualized, being an adult virgin is shunned and frowned upon. People automatically …
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He had been complaining that I wasn’t spending enough time with him.

We only saw each other maybe once or twice every month (and no it wasn’t in any …
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I remember the day my Aunt brought Blue Boy home to me, in his matching little cage. He was the first real pet I ever had, besides the stray …
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A compilation of freshly brewed reads curated for twenty + thirty somethings.

+ My Absentee Father Tried To Friend Me On Facebook I first learned my Dad’s birthday when he …
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India sung a song about it back in ‘06, but its 2014 and I still have to explain to people that I am not my hair. People tend to think …
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I woke up this morning and today was one of those days. Self-loathing won the fight, against my best wishes and unearthed comparisons that made my self-confidence wilt. Self-loathing …
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