personal life

HOW TO MAKE YOUR V-DAY A ME-DAY: TIPS FOR THE SINGLE VALENTINE | February 14th is bigger than just one day out the year.

We all know that almost …
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Stuck in a chain of pain. Your actions mimic my past, manipulating my present. I’m constantly waiting for you to leave. Anytime you’re absent, I think you’re gone forever. No …
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We have all heard the maxim “If you do not love yourself, you will be unable to love anyone else.” It sounds good. Yet more often than not we feel …
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Solanin, by Inio Asano, is about Meiko Inoue, a recent college grad working a 9-5 that she hates. Sound like anyone you know? She fears she’ll end up a faceless …
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Thank us later.

This Is What You Think It Means to Be Nineteen after Lana Del Rey

Pabst Blue Ribbon and hydroponic weed. Unprotected sex in his best friend’s backseat. Black lipstick kisses …
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His eyes are piercing, so focused. He doesn’t blink. He looks into the depths of your soul as if he knows every little secret. It’s almost as though he sees …
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I’d be happy to never hear those words again. It’s been almost two weeks since my father died and I’ve already heard it said about 500 times. Gross exaggeration, but …
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Insecurity. It’s the little bastard that sneaks up on us unexpectedly, snatches our confidence, and runs like a thief in the night and leaves us bare. Naked. Unexposed. Every one …
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I remember when I submitted my first pitch on From a Wild Flower, A Toast To a Lost Vision. It was a post I had written a month or two …
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