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The Unexpected Places You Find Love Again
I don’t think love is always a huge, cataclysmal emotional event. I think sometimes it sits in front of you for a very long time until you glance over and…
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10 Everyday Things That Can Ruin A Relationship
1. A poorly timed “yeah,” or “uh-huh,” that gives away the fact you weren’t really listening to their story.
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10 Epic Videos That Show You How To Dance Like No One’s Watching
You may be over the song, but you can’t deny that it makes you want to dance — so much that Justin Bieber and his friends got in on the…
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This Video Explaining Marilyn Monroe’s Makeup Routine Will Change The Way You Look At Every Woman
It’s interesting to see just how much of her routine was based on actual optical illusions
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7 Reasons Why Your Long Distance Relationship Is Doomed
What they are are fabrications of relationships, because what you two have exists only in the online world, the virtual world.
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35 Famous People Who Were Painfully Rejected Before Making It Big
Disney was fired from the Kansas City Star in 1919 because his editor said he “lacked imagination and had no good ideas.”
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The One Trick To Not Caring About What People Think
Nothing you can ever do will convince the rest of the world that they are not just another person walking down the street that doesn’t know how to dress appropriately…
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35 Important Things Only Chicagoans Will Understand
31. Thin crust pizza is for quitters.
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I Asked Siri 19 Ridiculous Questions And Got These Amazing Responses
Q: “Siri, will you tell me a joke?” A: “The past, present and future walk into a bar. It was tense.”
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50 People On The Thing They Hate Most About Sex
The pressure on performance. As a guy, I feel like I’m on stage, and I gotta put on a great show. Otherwise I’ll get booed off, or I’ll leave the…
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8 Unhealthy Relationship Habits I Once Developed (And You Might’ve, Too)
I am oh-so-skilled in making excuses for a man, justifying why he doesn’t call, doesn’t show effort. Men, according to my logic, are just always busy, too busy indeed to…
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Some Reasons Why The People Who Love Us Hurt Us The Most
Every time we forgave our jilted lover only to be cheated again. So many times yet we learn nothing.
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Dots Are The WORST Candy In The World
An unsuspecting person tricked into eating Dots might pick up a red Dot and think, “Oh, yum, strawberry!” only to put it in their mouth and taste DESPAIR.
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Most Things Are Best When They’re Imperfect
I don’t know what perfect is. I don’t know what it means to me anymore, so I won’t even pretend to know what it means to anybody else.
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7 Ways To Change Your Life Circumstances
Life isn’t always easy, especially in today’s society.
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Hooking Up vs Having Feelings
You begin to wonder how your romantic life would look from the outside and you start thinking of your hookups as types.
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The 39 Most Ridiculous Religous Facebook Status Updates, Ever
The best (er… worst?) of religious people on Facebook.
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17 Mind-Blowing Facts About Penises That Will Make You Re-Think Everything
Because it was ill-preserved, the penis was allegedly compared to a piece of leather, a shriveled eel, and to beef jerky.
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How I Learned I Was Pro-Choice By Secretly Aborting My Friend’s Baby
When I parked in the shopping mall parking lot where Planned Parenthood was, we were both slow to get out. I made a bad joke and said if she was…
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I Let My Man Get A Happy Ending And It Was Awesome
With all our talking, imagining, pretending, and google searching, my partner started to get intrigued.
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The Things You Shouldn’t Always Have To Learn The Hard Way
You shouldn’t have to wait until all the big things in your life are gone before you realize that the small things will save you.
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10 Highly Profound Quotes From Dazed And Confused That Perfectly Encapsulate The Beauty Of Being Young
Their experience is something that we’ve all come in contact with at some point, and it’s that magical, universal resonance that really makes this timeless. Dazed and Confused captures an…
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41 Mind-Blowingly Amazing Random Dating Facts Discovered By Years Of Research By The NOAA, NASA And The Department Of Sanitation
Over 230 doctors, sociologists, economists and world-renowned physicists were involved in this extensive study over over 1.2 million people, who were unknowingly recorded, taped and observed.
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Why Americans Don’t Travel Overseas
We’ve all heard the depressing statistic that only 36% of Americans own a passport. That’s really low (about 70% of Australians and 70% of Brits hold a passport) and though…
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Date A Girl Who Writes
Marry the girl who writes because she understands that one doesn’t succeed at writing—it is a continual, ever-evolving, growing craft of experience and practice…just like your marriage.
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6 Pieces Of Advice You Need To Follow If You Actually Want Your Long Distance Relationship To Work
A long distance lover puts a wrench in the entire concept of romance, doesn’t it?
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Don’t Marry Him
I’ve heard young women tell each other and themselves over and over “you deserve better!” When sometimes, honestly, it’s not at all clear what that means.
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7 Dead Giveaways That He’s Incredibly Into You On The First Date
2. He gets really excited upon figuring out strange coincidences.
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The Trouble With Idealizing The People We Love
It’s important to reflect on whether this person is “the one” because you’re madly, deeply in love and would do nearly anything to make them happy, or because they meet…
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5 Ways To Enjoy Yourself At Parties Without Sipping On Alcohol
I didn’t touch alcohol for the first time until I had gotten my acceptance letter from college. I wasn’t personally peer-pressured, more just pressured by society as a whole.
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32 People On Their Freaky-Ass Paranormal Stories
I had dreams every night of a crowd of faceless people with a little boy standing in front. He never spoke but I could tell he was trying to tell…
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25 Things You Didn’t Know About Miley Cyrus
Miley Cyrus currently racks up over 1 billion Google hits, making her more searched than Lady Gaga, Barack Obama, Katy Perry or God.
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What Does $1,500 In Rent Get You Around The Country?
As I miserably dish out over $1,500/month for rent in Manhattan (WITH roommates), I can’t help but jealously check out the other places in the country to see the kind…
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27 Signs You’ve Been Studying Too Much — And Need To Take A Break
18. You’ve replaced human contact with Adderall.
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7 More Songs You Should Be Listening To Right Now
7 awesome songs to power you through the day!
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365 Days of Change: My Year On Hormone Replacement Therapy
No longer did I feel as though my brain was steeped in a fog of dissonance.
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Fun And Inexpensive Dates For Broke 20-Somethings
I am a bit of a hopeless romantic. I love chick flicks, although I’m not a Nicholas Sparks fan… maybe it’s the trauma in all of them.
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You ARE Pretty Enough To Find Love
“If I were prettier, I’d have more of a chance with guys,” I thought, shamefully, secretly, when I was single.
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Watch This Little Boy Give The World’s Funniest Speech About Food While On The Toilet
Who let this poor kid eat all those things one after the other?!
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52 Things You’ll Go Through In The 52 Weeks After College Graduation
4. Sitting in front of an email draft for a good 47 minutes, wondering if the three lines you’re about to send to a prospective employer are too formal, or…
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Love Is Found Like This
Have you had this feeling in your life before? Who is he? What’s her name?
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20 Blunt, Hilarious Bill Burr Quotes, Tweets & Jokes
To me this is not yelling. I am not yelling. I’m just passionate about my opinions and I want to tell you all of them before you start talking again.
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The 10 Most Important Things You Need To Know To Effectively Pick Someone Up
Do not actually do anything that makes it seem like you’re hitting on them.
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How To Explain The Cleveland Indians Logo To People Who Think It’s Not Racist
Having a Cleveland Indians logo is like having a “New York Jews” or “San Francisco Chinamen,” mascots that would be blatantly offensive. I shudder to think what the equivalencies for…
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6 Refreshing Reasons To Keep A Journal
Journaling is the only activity for me to concentrate on my own private thoughts. It has helped me be a conversationalist and voracious reader. It is an outlet that is…
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40 Reasons You Shouldn’t Move To NYC
People say that visiting and living in New York City are very different things. I’ve found that they are exactly the same and that’s why it is a bad place…
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15 Cruelest Author-To-Author Insults
“How to read Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone? Why, very quickly, to begin with, and perhaps also to make an end. Why read it? Presumably, if you cannot be…