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14 Nurses And Hospital Workers Share The Creepiest Thing They’ve Ever Seen On The Job
“She kept talking about the man in black in the corner.”
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8 Reasons Why Love Is Something You Grow Into (Not Something You Feel Immediately)
Love is something you create, not an emotion that arises out of thin air.
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10 Signs Your Life Is Changing For The Better (Even If It Feels Difficult Right Now)
You feel “lost,” which is just another way of saying you’re detaching from your old ideas about what your life should be, or what the future should hold, and so…
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The 13 Juiciest Tidbits We Learned From ‘Goosebumps’ Author RL Stine’s AMA
At his peak Stine wrote at an incredible pace of one Goosebumps or Fear Street book every 2 weeks.
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What Books To Base Your Life On (From Someone Who Reads A Lot)
I used to go around and ask every smart person I met—even emailing important people I didn’t know— “What books do you recommend to a kid like me?”
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16 Daily Rituals That Will Ensure 2016 Is The Year You Want It To Be
Make one healthier food choice each day. Just one.
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Sometimes I Honestly Wish My Love Was Boring
I try to have easy love, boring love. The kind of love that isn’t written about in poetry, or on walls that witness fighting, or that lingers in scars that…
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40 Signs Your Best Friends Are Basically Your Family
You can trust them not to tag you in any unflattering pictures.
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Do Less: 7 Simple Ways Happy People Spend Their Time
Happy people spend time outside just for the sake of it.
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7 Chivalrous Acts That We Should Still Expect From Modern Dating
Be clear with your intentions. “Hanging out” is not dating, and if you aren’t interested in someone enough to go out on a limb and ask to take them to…
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20 Ways An Older Brother Prepares You For The Big Bad World
He is your technician, your mover, your IT consultant and your handy man. Pretty much he is there to fix anything that needs fixing-including you.
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Ranking The Women On This Season Of ‘The Bachelor’: Who Is Bland Enough To Actually End Up With Ben?
Ben didn’t think it was fair to keep both twins around so instead he pitted them against each other in their childhood home and eliminated one in front of their…
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The Truth About Changing Them
You can’t force someone to love you, to treat you a certain way. To be honest, faithful, supportive, and kind. But you can love yourself enough to acknowledge when you’re…
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12 ‘Healthy’ Foods That Are Making You Fat (Says A Personal Trainer)
A reputable professional dedicated to physical fitness tells us what we’re getting wrong about eating well.
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10 Traumatic (But Also Defining) Mother-Daughter Moments Every Woman Will Relate To
When you realize you sound exactly like her.
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7 Ways To Increase Your Attention Span (Because We’re Apparently Down To 8 Seconds 😱)
“Can you can pay attention longer than a goldfish?”
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Here’s Your ‘Get Out Of Bed’ Pep Talk
We are programmed to strive for improvement, prosperity, success, growth. Challenge, possibility, knowledge, enlightenment. And it’s not even the end goal that actually, truly satisfies us. It’s the experience that…
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11 Signs He’s Different Than The Last Guy (Or Guys) Who Screwed You Over
He cares if you’re upset. He doesn’t ignore your unhappiness, he attempts to understand it.
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20 Creepy Catalog Readers Share The Most Horrifying Thing They Ever Lived Through
“She saw two other men, behind a thick set of bushes, with chains. They had metal chains in their hands and they were hiding.”
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23 Signs You Definitely Weren’t One Of The ‘Popular’ Kids In High School
Everyone’s parents fucking loved you.
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A Thank You From A Former Student Teacher To Her Cooperating Teacher
You believed in me. Me—in my brand new dress pants and pressed shirt and clean cardigan and matching flats, but a nervous hint in my steps—you trusted me.
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46 Valentine’s Day Disaster Stories That Will Make You Want To Stay Single Forever
“I ended up in the hospital after my hair caught fire.”
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9 Signs You’re Becoming A Legit Introvert After Years Of Identifying As An Extrovert
You finally understand why alone time is so great.
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You Owe It To Yourself To Break Your Heart
If you’re living your life right, your heart is going to break all the time.
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20 Women Confess What They’d Change About Their Vagina If They Could
“Replace the blood with liquid gold.”
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6 Beautiful And Crucial Life Lessons You Gain From Taking Care Of Children That Are Not Your Own
You love these little guys. Not because they are your own and you have to, but because it comes naturally. You don’t have to love them, but you do.
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Read This When You’re Scared Of Being Vulnerable
Sometimes people mistake vulnerability for weakness, because while others build walls up to prevent anyone from coming in, you bring walls down to let yourself be free.
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Why They Leave When They Still Love You
They left you because they couldn’t convince themselves that they wouldn’t turn into their parents, that they wouldn’t wake up one day and want to flee.
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20 Weird Daily Struggles Only Bilingual People Experience
You still don’t know how to answer the phone. Do you say “Hello. Ola. Alo. Pronto. Aloha.”?
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This Party Game Is Actually Terrifying And I Need To Warn You Before You Play
“It’s in the flesh, it’s in the blood, it’s Black Magic.”
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13 Struggles You’ll Only Understand If You Suffer From A Serious Case Of Baby Face
You’re still not going to be looked at like a Giselle or an Angelina. Nope. You’re going to be greeted with an, “Awwww! Babe!” because you have a baby face.…
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26 Tweets From Rapper B.o.B. That Prove (In His Mind) That The Earth Is Actually Flat
Rapper B.o.B. reveals himself as a Flat Earth Society member.
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30 Things You Need To Do For Yourself When You’re Going Through A Breakup
Find a positive mantra to repeat in your head every day, even if it’s as simple as “I can do this” or “I’m going to be alright.”
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Recognizing The Voice Of Your Ego
The ego is the worn-out script that plays out in our head to convince us of our unworthiness. This is coupled with recalling negative thoughts that have us believe we…
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20 Men Confess What They’d Change About Their Dicks If They Could
“Make them all the same size. We’re all in this together, fellas.”
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I Went With My Best Friend To Our Childhood Hangout Spot, And We Really Should Have Just Stayed Home
Before his words could sink in, Daniel pushed me towards the approaching fire and was back out the door before I could turn around to catch a glimpse of him.…
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Why I Will Always Pick Work Over A Relationship
Before I had thoughts about what my wedding dress would look like I had thoughts about what my first book cover would look like.
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15 Things In Your Life That Are Causing You Unnecessary Unhappiness
The belief that you are special.
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I Am Not The Type Of Woman You Can Push Around
This is what you need to know about me: I’ll love the hell out of you. I’ll care for you. But I’ll be damned if you think I’m the woman…
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23 People On The One Piece Of Advice They’d Love To Give To Their Younger Self
ll you have in life is your name, which is your word and your integrity. How you live, not what you say, is who you really are. Live and enjoy…
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The Truth About People Who Are Always Running Away
As long as you’re always the one leaving, you’re always the one in control.
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50 Hilarious Times Autocorrect Really F*cked People Over
Click here if you have ever felt personally victimized by autocorrect.
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44 Ambien Stories That Will Creep You The Eff Out
“On numerous occasions I would wake up to find my kitchen in total chaos – baking pans, skillets, knives, cutting boards, etc as if I’d prepared a seven course meal.…
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8 Little Things To Remember When You Feel Like Everything Is Against You
You can throw yourself a pity party, but don’t expect others to join in. Everyone might tell you what you’re going through sucks, but no one else is experiencing it…
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Macklemore’s ‘White Privilege II’ Deserves Praise (And Criticism)
What do we actually want from white people in race conversations?
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5 Real Sex Stories That Will Make You Really Horny (Part VII)
A little pleasure delay goes a long way.
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There’s Something Weird About The Chicken Coop On Our Farm: Part Two
I scrambled to my feet, swinging the backpack onto my back, leaving the flashlight – which had turned back on – in the dirt. I lunged for the rope and…
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7 Ways To Spark Motivation And Become Your Best Self
The difference between the people who get what they want from life and the people who don’t comes down to one word – motivation.
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10 Endearing Truths About Women Who Have No Filter
They will push those around them to be unapologetically themselves.
