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10 Things Millennials Are Incredibly Good At Lying About
Oftentimes, the demands of life require people to be good at stuff. But not everyone is good at stuff, so some people have to lie in order to keep pace.
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29 Things From The 90s You Might’ve Forgotten About
Here is a list of 29 things from the 90s that you might not remember on your own.
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How To Tell If Someone Is Right For You
You know someone is right for you if you break up with them and know that that’s never the end.
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10 Ways To Deal With Losing The One Person You Want
I don’t know about you but I’d rather breakdance barefoot on broken glass than be rejected by the only person I want and desire.
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5 Reasons Why So Many Relationships Fail Miserably
We search for true love and instead find false hope.
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22 Signs You Are Not Ready To Get Married
At the end of the fairy tale, when the Princess rides off into the sunset to marry the handsome Prince, you’re just like, “Really?? That’s IT??! I wanna see more…
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What It Was Like To Grow Up In The Ghetto As A White Girl
Everyone, except for a white lesbian couple who had moved to the area to build parks for underprivileged children, was black or Hispanic.
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Downsides To Being The Youngest In The Family
There are constant comparisons being made.
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What My Nose Job Taught Me
I let my nose break me, but it turns out that, for the most part, I just wanted something to blame for my shortcomings.
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The Mind Of An Eating Disorder
I can’t tell you the last time I sat down to eat and didn’t completely fall into a whirlwind of frightening thoughts: Is this really three ounces of chicken? Will…
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A Narcissist’s Love Letter
When I say I’m in love with you, I mean I love the story I can tell to my next lover, about my ex-lover, about how beautiful things were, how…
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What Happens When Real Lesbians Watch Lesbian Porn
Though it comes as no surprise to nearly every woman on the planet that porn is not geared towards us whatsoever, it’s always nice to know that not just straight…
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5 Embarrassing Things Everyone Does In The Shower
Bonus points if you actually use different voices/accents for the different people in the imaginary conversation. That is a prestigious level of shower insanity.
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Women Don’t Wear Makeup To Impress Men
It is so much more simple to say, “Stop caring what a man thinks, ladies, you’re beautiful as you are,” than to address all of the myriad reasons why that…
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20 Tips to Get Through Your Twenties
Don’t kill anybody. There might be a time in your 20s when you encounter a situation where you’re like, man, I could totally get away with killing this person. Police…
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Dear Girls, Please Shave Your Pubic Hair
But I am here to talk about realities, realities that are based on experiences, guy talks (who cares about that?) and late night chats with good female friends of mine.
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45 Best Things About Living In Seattle
Does your city have a giant pink elephant giving itself a bath?
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6 Signs It’s Not Going To Work Out
2. You’re kind of avoiding introducing them to your friends.
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20 Things Most Americans Don’t Know About History
16. Evidence also indicates that we may have had our first bisexual or lesbian first lady.
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Why Do Black People Always Vote Democratic?
To be black and to vote Republican don’t seem to go together. But where does this distrust of black Republicanism come from? Are black people really slaves to the Democratic…
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5 Emotions You Only Experience While Drunk
Soon, your honger — your hungry anger — will drive you to eat that Jumbo Slice and/or pack of nuggets as though it dishonored your family name and this is…
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7 People Who Will Be At Your High School Reunion
Geeks are the bones of every high school. Not because they’re busy getting stuffed in lockers, but because they’re the only ones who aren’t pretending. Everyone else is pretending.
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Ligers and Tigons and Multiracial Kids… Oh My!
When I was a boy, if you were multiracial you learned pretty quickly there was no clearly designed spaced for you in the world.
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6 Signs You Grew Up Too Fast
Everyone convinced you that taking the first job that would have you was the best way to secure your future, and now you’re absolutely paranoid of letting it go.
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7 Tips For Discussing Relationship Problems Without Creating Drama
Understand that it’s not easy to hear how someone you love very much is dissatisfied with you.
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You Led Me On
I’m not crazy, and this idea of us did exist outside of the dusty corners of my mind.
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8 Unexpected Things I Learned During A Year Of Travel
In 2009 I got really fed up with my 9-5 job and decided to quite and spend a year backpacking around Asia. It took a year of living with my…
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7 Things Women Will Always Have To Explain To Men
6. If we don’t orgasm, it’s not to spite you.
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21 More Dating Truths We Need to Realize
13. You need to spend time apart, or you will get sick of each other.
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7 Things To Do Before You Settle Down
Throw yourself into the degree, the promotion, the internship, or the backpacking tour of Asia that you have always dreamed of doing but knew that you couldn’t do if anyone…
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8 Things I Don’t Miss About Living In Japan
You basically have to walk a perfect straight line at all times in Japan because if you veer off at any moment you will almost definitely get mashed by a…
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Not Every Girl Is A Princess And That’s Fine
The sad truth is that even if we were to invest all of our time and resources into making ourselves look like somebody else, most of us would not succeed…
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The 41 Greatest Andy Warhol Quotes
Don’t pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.
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How Do You Make Life-Changing Decisions?
Think about where you want to go, back out your decisions from there.
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12 Dating Behaviors I’m Done With
3. Pretending to be “normal.”
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Nobody Likes You When You’re 23, But That’s Probably How It Should Be
“Real Life,” despite being the name of a recent facebook album, is decidedly a thing.
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9 Kinds Of Sex And What They Mean
There’s the kind you have in the morning with sleep in your eyes and lust in your veins.
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7 Things You Think In A Long-Term Relationship
Will we eventually sink into the molasses of romantic stability?
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When You Kill In The Name Of Love
Satanic compulsions, you say? If that’s what you call loving someone, what do you call killing?
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The Flaws Of New York City
A walk home from work is a walk through the parade of Nations during the Olympics.
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Why You Should End Up With Your Best Friend
But nothing could be less ordinary than someone who cares about us when it’s least convenient.
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I’m Still In Love With You
I love you for a lot of reasons but I love you the most because of how insecure you are, because you don’t see all the good stuff that’s inside…
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How To Be In Love With A Friend Who Doesn’t Feel The Same Way
5. Inadvertently ruin every relationship with everyone else because of him.
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How To Deal With Burnout
It’s the body’s way of saying, “Whoops! Time is up. You need to make a change.”
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How To Start Your Own Religion
The best thing about being a young adult right now is that you, more than any previous generation, have the freedom and the resources to create your own religion. So,…
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Nobody Else Can Heal You
If your peace and acceptance is contingent on someone else, and if your hope is external, you do not really have any of those things.