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Where Does Love Go When It Dies?
“Everything is gonna change,” you would whisper at night, staring up at the stars, passing a single bottle between you. “I know,” they would reply. And you knew, just knew,…
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The 10 Most Disgusting Things I Ever Did While I Was A Smoker
Some idiot once told you that it was good for your plants if you put your butts into the soil, and you want a cigarette bad enough to retrieve even…
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Why He Will Never Love You
Rule number one: Never believe anything anyone tells you in bed. Beds are safe spaces where lies take root and grow, grow, grow all the way to the ceiling until,…
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How To Get Over Yourself In 7 Easy Steps
You can make all of the “right” decisions and sound awesome to your parents’ judgy friends at dinner parties, or you can do what you really want and succeed or…
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41 Reasons Why You’re Still Single
Your Snuggie isn’t built for two.
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Explaining The Stages Of Anger
The most popular frustration triggers consist of a multi-pronged attack of petty annoyances in a short time-frame, your overbearing mother taking one too many jabs at your emotional psyche on…
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50 Of Life’s Little Pleasures
Completing a form on the internet without missing a required field, on the first attempt.
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What To Do When You Fall In Love With Your Best Friend
Screw the friendship and just go for it. If you’re developing strong feelings for a friend, you’re probably in constant misery. Think about it. Realistically, can you do this forever?…
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Reasons You Might Be Crying
Is it your birthday? Are you upset because you’re spending it without your loved ones? Sad that you’re getting older?
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Other Pixar Characters Who Are Obviously Gay
Doc Hudson from Cars: Older guy. Not married. Named after Rock Hudson. Obsessed with Owen Wilson. You do the gay math.
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50 Things That Should Be Relationship Dealbreakers
They refuse to communicate what is wrong, any time that something is wrong, until whatever was wrong blows up five months later into something that is much worse than the…
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Dreamland Lost
This plane keeps us all together, and as these chattering Chinese fly us to Jakarta I am wishing you could be who you were. I show you how to fill…
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30 Ways To Make Your 20s Better
Don’t spend too much time on Instagram trying to decide if Hudson or Amaro is the more aesthetically pleasing effect on your picture.
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9 Shocking Revelations For 90s Kids
If you watched Rocko’s Modern Life as a child, I’m certain you were too youthful and naïve to fully appreciate the adult jokes and innuendo that the cartoon was chock-full…
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25 Things To Do Before You Turn 25
Take time to revisit the places that made you who you are: the apartment you grew up in, your middle school, your hometown. These places may or may not be…
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10 Things They Should Have Taught Us In Sex Ed
It’s an undeniable trope in modern humor to have the woman be a perfectly normal, capable member of society — right up until she’s PMSing, at which point she becomes…
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A Guide To Being Alone Without Being Lonely
Whether you’re a cross-country drive or a trans-atlantic flight from home, that first moment when you pause where you are, take a deep breath and open your eyes to an…
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When You Need To Just Have Sex With Someone, Already
If you interact in any way on Tumblr, you obviously need to have sex. But then again everyone on Tumblr just needs to have sex with each other. Just a…
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How To Survive A Bad Haircut
However, I have just showered and realized that my bangs are SO short, that after rinsing all my hair back and stepping out of the shower, the bangs stick straight…
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6 Signs You Shouldn’t Be Hanging Out With Someone
But beyond just making the waiter’s life miserable for the hour or so spent in the restaurant, this person clearly holds service jobs in general in extremely low esteem –…
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9 Things You’ll Regret After A Breakup
When you’re in a relationship, often times it seems that everybody wants you. Of course as soon as you’re single nobody even glances in your direction, making you remorseful that…
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We Are All Made Of Stars
But it’s not for us, darling, it never was. I don’t believe in a higher meaning, nor do I need a purpose to live for. I believe in us, in…
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Things I Wish People Told Me When I Entered My 20s
One thing you don’t realize in your twenties is that anything is possible. It sounds trite but it’s true. This is your moment.
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The Single Greatest Conversation Starter Ever
But then… you think of something. Something you read on a website once. A promise of a topic so fertile, so rich with conversational opportunities that it can save any…
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Things You Forget When You’re Single
Something shifted and all of a sudden there were no more potential + 1’s. It’s been two years now and I feel like I’m experiencing some kind of amnesia. I’m…
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Why Dating A Jerk Isn’t Worth It
Because it doesn’t matter how interesting, sexy or good in bed they are if they don’t treat you well or make you hate yourself.
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5 Different Kinds Of Besties
For those of you who are confused by this phenomenon, allow me to outline the different kinds of best friends that exist here in Lady Town (a new city I…
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In Defense Of The Jersey Shore
I happen to actually be from the “Jersey Shore,” and as you already can tell, I am a total sweetheart and absolutely worth getting to know (HA, get in line).…
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Pretending You’re Oppressed: The New Internet Fad
The base of this false movement is “identity.” You’ve probably heard the term “identity politics” used to refer to people who believe that identity colors one’s experiences, and this idea…
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Is It All Right To Hook Up With Your Cousin?
Charles Darwin married his cousin. They had ten children. Albert Einstein married his cousin too. So did Jesse James and H.G Wells. And the list goes on and on –…
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You’re Alone All The Time
You’re alone all the time. At first it’s unbearable and agonizing and physically painful, the sense that you no matter what you do, you will do it in solitude.
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An Open Letter To Men Who Comment On Women’s Weight
There is absolutely no excuse for ignorance, apathy, insensitivity, and callousness about women who struggle with body image; eating disorders are an issue that affects us all.
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10 Signs That Someone Doesn’t Want To Sleep With You
They make you constantly feel like you have no genitalia, like you aren’t a sexual being. One dismissive glance or thoughtless comment chops your privates off and sends it to…
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Thank Your Ex
Thank you for arguing with me. You taught me the correct way to disagree, as well as the incorrect way.
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What Happens When A Girl Shaves Her Head
But that shaved-headed girl is always inside, looking out, knowing that our identity is a haircut away from being taken.
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The People You Will Fall In Love With In Your 20s
You will fall in love with someone for one night and one only. They’ll come to you when you need them and be gone in the morning when you don’t.
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Overcoming The Hispanic Stereotype
If I have overcome anything in life brought on by my culture, it would be the stereotypes waiting for me to prove I am a failure. When taking standardized tests…
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4 Things You Shouldn’t Say To Someone Having A Panic Attack
Panic attacks send adrenaline all over your body. When I have one, my heart races and my hands shake like someone’s doing brain surgery on me while I’m awake. The…
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Fred Durst’s 12 Most Inspirationally Awful Lyrics
After all, that’s what’s oddly inspiring about Fred Durst’s lyrics — you could have written them, but you didn’t. It’s like patting yourself on the back for not crapping your…
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How To Be A Teenager
Be young. Be so young. Be born in 1996. Do you even know what that means? Do you even know what people who were born in the ’80s think of…
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13 Inventions The World Needs Desperately
Waterproof Cell Phones. Throwing friends into the pool is a lost art, do you know why that is? Well you can ask Siri, but my guess is that nobody wants…
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10 Things I’ve Learned From Being Dumped
Your internet history will be in a really #dark place. Besides having Google searches such as, “What does it sound like when doves cry?” and “Voodoo love spells for the…
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5 Things I Wish I Had Done While I Was Still Single
I’ve also dated my fair share of dudes, so I’m not suggesting I catch up for years of lost time here, or even participate in an entire pre-boyfriend do-over. I’m…
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I Don’t Know How To Be In A Relationship
Some people aren’t good at doing sports or have trouble understanding how to do math. Maybe this is my weak spot. Maybe I just legitimately don’t know how to be…
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5 Telltale Signs That Someone Is Rich
In New York, everyone’s always crying about not having any money but it’s like, just move to Kansas City, Missouri, and live like a king if you hate it here…
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How Unattractive People Really Are
At the park on a weekend, one sees so many hardbodies you’d think you accidentally stepped into a fitness magazine’s photo shoot. Abs jog along the concreted and graveled paths.…
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5 Things That Just Aren’t Cute Anymore
If you’re a person who still finds themselves 60% drunker than everyone else in the room, I encourage you to look deep within and admit to yourself that getting cray…
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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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I Want A Tuesday Kind Of Love
A Tuesday kind of love is this: commuting to work knowing that someone cares about what you’re going to have for lunch; understanding that you do not have to be…