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You Have To Be Kindest To Yourself When It Seems Least Deserved
You eventually have to stop basing your self-worth on the insecurities of others and start basing it on your own genuine convictions, no matter how long it takes for you…
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You’ll Never Believe Where These Breathtaking Photos Were Taken
This place is beautiful, both timeless and modern, and I have the pictures to prove it.
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25 Recommendations For Life Changing Biographies For The Voracious Reader In You
There is a moment in the book early in Grant’s career as a soldier where he was sent to hunt down a band of guerrillas, shaking with fear as he…
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The 14 Differences Between The Boys You Date And The Men You Marry
The kind of man you marry wants to go down on you. The kind of boy you date wants you to go down on him.
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What It’s Like To Grow Up On Long Island (Without The Stereotypes)
The day before I left for college, I sat in the parking lot of a nearby beach with the windows of my Jeep rolled down, trying to mentally bottle the…
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The Girl’s Guide To Karaoke
3. Please, don’t sing “Say My Name” or Spice Girls in a group of girls and just giggle drunkenly through the entire thing. Nobody likes you when you do this.
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To The Smart Girls Who Are Still Single
I know that, in your weaker moments, you’ve been overcome with frustration at the appearance of a wedding album on Facebook.
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6 Reasons Why Girls Like Hannah Horvath Will Always Be Successful
So Hannah has slipped and showed signs of immaturity. Oh, the horror! Except wait; isn’t this normally a mark of a true human being, complete with all of our humanly…
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19 Wonderful Things You Didn’t Know About Costco
The first place I’d run to — if there was a zombie apocalypse — would be to a Costco and climbing up the metal scaffolding.
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20 Hilarious Dating Tweets That Will Make You Glad You’re Single
When you’ve just come out of a break-up, the last thing you need is another inspirational quote.
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10 Confessions From An Introvert
4. We have a heightened sense for a fake or insincere personality.
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13 Things You Don’t Have To Change If You’re In A Good Relationship
We all know the couples where one person has been dragged away from the friend group, and no one should be that person.
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The 8 Types Of Single People You Meet At Happy Hour
Positioning themselves in the light to look most like their flattering profile photo, as well as hoping against hope that their date will be as good-looking as promised, they can…
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16 Things We Forget To Thank Our Dads For
For getting us started on what would become our lifelong sports obsessions.
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Tell Us The Best Pickup Line You’ve Ever Heard
So what, for you, is the best opening line that you’ve ever seen? Something that made the person laugh, smile, or at least just not feel like they were being…
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15 Scary Things You Didn’t Know About The Yakuza
The Yakuza have a big role in disseminating pornography.
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Jumping Out Of Airplanes: How It’s Really Like
I’m not particularly scared of heights, but jumping out of an airplane was one of the training events I dreaded the most.
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I Am Not The Girl You Will Marry
Your middle school crush is not your high school sweetheart is not your college fling is not your first live-in lover is not your rebound is not your long-term is…
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7 Reasons Why Our Relationships With Our Fathers Are So Important
You’ve yelled and cried, to him and at him, and he still forgave you. He is of the few who still loves you even in your lowest moments.
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How To Have An Adult Sleepover
My girlfriends and i have started an annual tradition: ALL GIRLS SLEEPOVER. This year marks our first anniversary of this brilliant idea.
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7 Reasons Why Every Modern Woman Should Marry A Southern Gentleman
Whether it’s finishing grad school or getting a big promotion at work, your Southern gentleman is going to be a loving, encouraging platform of unbridled support. It’s just how he…
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No One Is Perfect; Try To Love Them Anyway
People are going to make you angry, sad, confused, and upset. Don’t fight fire with fire – break the chain.
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11 Frank Underwood Quotes That Prove He’s Your Evil Alter Ego
“Friends make the worst enemies.”
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10 Telling Traits Of Lawyers
Not to knock my own kind, but one of the best compliments I’ve ever received from someone was that “you don’t seem like a lawyer.”
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5 Things Men Really Want On The First Date
When it comes to writing about the perspective of a group of people, it helps if you’re actually in it. So as man and one who has been on many…
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7 Inspirational Movies That Will Get You Out Of Your Rut
You know when you watch a film or read a book and immediately after you feel invigorated and raring to go out and DO STUFF. YEAH!
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8 Serial Killers Who Were Never Caught
From 1985 to 1990 there were nine murders in the Philadelphia neighborhood of Frankford where the victim was sexually assaulted and then brutally stabbed.
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15 Things That Happen When You Go To An Indian Wedding
Clear your schedule, it’s a 3-day celebration!
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14 Beyoncé Covers That Are Better Than The Original
There’s a girl in here who might actually be the real Beyoncé.
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23 Little Ways Men And Women Can Be Better To Each Other
Paying for dinner when you have money, and letting someone pay for it when they don’t. Taking turns with the expectation of who has to “foot the bill” when you…
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My Boyfriend Disappeared And I Found Him In Thailand With His Ex-Girlfriend, Who Apparently, Was Still His Girlfriend
I called his office, he told me that his phone died, that he forgot his charger at home. He’d call me later. 10 days of nothing. He disappeared.
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8 Things You Don’t Realize About High School Until After You Graduate
It’s not the end of the world. Really. Seriously.
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37 People Share The Worst, Most Embarrassing Text They’ve Sent While Drunk
I once told a girl I had a thing for that I wanted to get her boyfriend pregnant. Drunk me thought that this would make her jealous.
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18 Unexpected Perks Of Being The Middle Child
Chances are you’ve shared a room at some point in your life, making you a well-practiced college roommate.
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How You Forget The One Who Got Away
That I wasn’t holding onto another person, but to an answer, and to hope. I’m not sorry you didn’t end up being that for me. I’m grateful, because it made…
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When We Confuse Love With Lust
When their hands run across your body, you think about how much they care. You think about how they will be there for you. Forever, you think. Forever, you hope.
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23 Things Most People Dislike, Which Successful People Embrace
They allow a healthy dose of delusion to inhabit their reality.
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Watching A Stripper Get Ready For Work
She hauls in a bag or two full of sparkles and spangles and fringe, tiny outfits and brightly colored thongs that are just strips of fabric, no substance.
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Sometimes, We Fall In Love And We Get It Wrong
We fall in love with the idea of a person, of all the things we glimpse in small, rapid moments, and cling to those flashes with a desperation that can…
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An Open Letter To The Love Of My Life
I don’t know what it is exactly, but it seems like you really really care for me in a way that others just don’t. You seem to really want the…
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How Girls Really Are: Fantasy Vs. Reality
I live alone. Correction: I’m a lady who lives alone. Because of these facts, I do some pretty weird things since no one is around to judge me except for…
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Love Is An Ocean, We Are The Rain
The ink to a pen, the feather to a wing, the star to a galaxy; we’re specks of dust caught in the howling winds of a desert storm. Together, we…
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15 Things Younger Siblings Don’t Know Their Older Siblings Did For Them
The expectation for an older sibling to settle down is always at a premium.
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Not Asking Questions About Childhood Vaccinations Makes You An Irresponsible Parent
The word “retarded” is defined as being less advanced in mental, physical, or social development than is usual for one’s age. I used the term in an appropriate and applicable…
