Marisa Donnelly
Marisa is a writer, poet, & editor. She is the author of Somewhere On A Highway, a poetry collection on self-discovery, growth, love, loss and the challenges of becoming.
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17 Signs You’re Going Through A Major Quarter-Life Crisis
You have suddenly started to question everything. From your college major to your friend group to where you should live post-graduation and even as far as whether or not you’ve recently picked up a gluten allergy??!? Could that be a thing??
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This Is What You Need To Remember If You’re Trying To Make A Difference With Your Passions
Even if it seems like the entire world is against you, even if some days you feel purposeless, even if sometimes you stare at the clock on the wall and wonder what it all means. What you are doing matters.
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This Is How A Man Gets A Woman (According To Women)
"Treat me like a human being rather than a romantic conquest."
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14 Reasons Why A Woman Who Is Close With Her Father Will Make The Best Type Of Wife
She understands the complexities of the male mind.
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25 Things You Can Relate To If You’re The Type Of Person Who (Stupidly) Cares What Others Think Of You
If someone starts a nasty rumor about you, you get suuuuuper anxious because WTF THAT’S NOT TRUE AND I CAN’T LET THE WORLD THINK THAT ABOUT ME!!!!!!
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I Only Want You When You’re Sober
I want your eyes open and bright, not red-rimmed and disguised with a loopy smile. Not a body slumped on a couch and an arm draped heavy across my shoulders. Not a kiss you won’t remember, still wet on my lips.
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I’m Sorry I Can’t Love You
This isn’t a choice I made, but an unconscious feeling. I cannot love you because my heart is still caught in the mess of someone else. I cannot love you because I am too selfish, too determined, too content in being the girl on her own.
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This Is What Your Favorite Childhood Network Says About The Type Of Kid You Were
Nickelodeon: You were a wild child, identifying most with the characters in the Rugrats, Wild Thornberrys, or Hey Arnold.
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Maybe Being Truly Happy Means Letting Go Of The Material
A phone was just a thing. It was replaceable. But the memories, the laughs, the dancing, the friends that surrounded me and the strangers I hadn’t yet met—those things weren’t.
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This Is How We Speak Now
We don’t. We communicate in garbled languages, in words typed and misconstrued behind keyboards and screens. We text what we mean and then we erase it. And we write what we think we should say, what the world wants us to.
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Men, Here Are 10 Things You Should Never EVER Say To A Female
“You would look better with bigger boobs / butt.”
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Forget Wanderlust, There Are Unexplored Worlds All Around You
There are books to be read, music to be listened to, voices and memories to soak in. There are people and places and entire worlds outside your front door, just waiting to be discovered. And you can find yourself in all of it.
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I Could Never Call Loving You A Waste
But you were my adventure. You were my Friday nights, my cross-country trips, my pounding heart, my spark.
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11 Beautiful Things That Happen When You Fall In Love With Someone Older Than You
You suddenly see your life paved out in front of you, magical and terrifying and new.
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Don’t Miss Me Quietly
Not when the shower water sends goosebumps down your back. Not when you walk through town and see the place where we first kissed, outside your old apartment in the glow of the faded streetlight.
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10 Things You Can Relate To If Your Mother Was The Main Disciplinarian In Your Home
You don’t take anyone’s sh*t.
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You Are More Than A Body
You are so much more than a body, created and capable, futile and flawed.