How To Love Your Family
Loving your family is also about hating your family. The two are inextricably linked. You can see that now. You can’t love a group of people that much without some hate bleeding into it.
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5 Dating Rules I Will Never Understand
I mean, it’s surprising that in 2012 anyone would have some kind of line in the sand about how many pasta dinners a guy has to take you out for before you can take your vagina out of its silk-lined jewelry box and let it participate in the relationship.
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Chelsea Fagan is a writer living in Paris. It's less pretentious than it sounds. 
Kiss Like You Mean It
Kiss them like it’s going to be hung on someone’s wall someday, as a reminder of what love can be like.
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Nico Lang is a correspondent and blogger for WBEZ (Chicago’s local NPR affiliate), the Co-Creator of In Our Words, ... 
Why Addictions Make Unwanted House Guests
We admitted we were powerless over [insert drug of choice here], that our lives had become unmanageable, reads the first step of all 12-Step programs. But what is powerless? We quibble.
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Donna Peterson is a 26-year-old writer, director, and actress from Silver Spring, Maryland, who received her B.A. in ... 
An Open Letter To Fiona Apple
How do you know my brain and my shaken hands and my bones and muscles and my loose skin and I don’t even know my conscious, but you do.
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A starved novelist and book binger, Nick has structured his life around the written word. No good with a ... 
