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Tick Tock: It’s Time To Stop Bullying 30-Something Women About Their Biological Clocks
My 35th birthday looms ahead, taunting me with the promise of missed opportunities and lifelong regrets if I don’t spread my legs and invite some sperm in stat.
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15 Struggles Only People Who Look Ridiculously Young For Their Age Can Relate To
You have to literally prove your age to some especially annoying nonbelievers.
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This Is What We Fail To Understand About Effort In Relationships
Feeling is why we do EVERYTHING in our lives. We spend our days striving to feel a certain way. We want to feel the satisfaction of sex, love, attention, admiration, respect, and so on.
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A High School Friend Is Being Charged With Attempted Murder And, As A Medium, I’m Going To Use My Gifts To Help Her (Part Five)
Can you imagine? Can you imagine being on a plane one moment…just having landed from a vacation and the next moment, you are being hauled off in a pair of handcuffs as you look at the horrified looks on not only your children’s faces…but every stranger you pass on the walk of shame through the…
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22 Tiny Things You Should Do For Yourself Every Single Day
Remind yourself that your body is not something for you or others to judge – it’s a vessel that allows you to explore the world, communicate with others, try new things, and experience new feelings.
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17 Things To Do If You Feel Like Relapsing
Feel your muscles lengthening from your fingertips down to your shoulders. Bend your knees and straighten them. Carefully move your body into slow and gentle stretches, knowing you are honoring your body by making it feel good.
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16 Ways To Unleash Your Inner Child That Are Somewhat Acceptable In Adulthood
It’s weird that a Spongebob laptop case is harmless, but if you buy a Spongebob bedspread you’re instantly judged. It’s not a crime that the characters who made us happy when we were children still make us happy as adults.
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50 Simple, Positive Things You Need To Do For Yourself After A Breakup
1. Get a haircut. A wow-you-look-amazing haircut to chop off the dead ends and start completely fresh.
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10 Things That Happen When You Joined A Sorority In College But Are The Opposite Of A Sorority Girl
When you go to reunions with other alumni and everyone sings sorority songs at the top of their lungs you silently move your lips hoping to fool everyone that you still remember the words.
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9 Confessions From A Skinny Girl With An Eating Disorder
The difference between being thin and being skinny is that when you’re skinny, everyone is constantly trying to get you to eat. As if you are deliberately starving yourself.
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8 Reasons People Who Travel Make The Best Employees
The place to find the perfect out-of-the-box thinkers, problem solvers, and movers and shakers is the arrivals hall at an international airport.
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A History Of Trying To Be Cool
It’s such a terrible feeling to want to reject who you are. The reality is that I was not built to be an Olsen twin. I was not built to sit around doing coke with people who looked amazing in Balenciaga.
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Listening To Hollaback Girl And Trying To Not Text You (Because I’m Not A Hollaback Girl)
I don’t know how I’m supposed to pretend you don’t turn my stomach into a butterfly mortuary, that they flew around so fast and frantic, all of them died. I’m a graveyard of everything I’ve ever said to you.
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I Could Taste Her Broken Heart
She tasted like the wine I swam in when I was freshly broken, and like the confusion I once called my best friend. She reminded me of the huckleberries we’d eat before they were fully ripe, but we liked the way they bit our tongues so we kept coming back for more.
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The Difference Between Dating A Boy And Dating A Man
A boy underestimates you. A man is not afraid to challenge you, because he knows what you’re capable of.
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17 Heart-Punching Quotes That Will Make You Fall In Love With Poetry (Part Two)
“How reckless, the way that I love like the first chapter of a ghost story. Like the gentlest hand reaching out of a grave.”
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They Are Never Worth The Chase
Thinking back on it, all of my life so far, I have let boys set my self-esteem and self-worth for me. And for what? For miserable nights picking out every flaw I thought they saw on me? For more miserable nights picking apart our conversations?
