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I Dropped Out Of College Because I Was Addicted To ‘World Of Warcraft’
This routine of intense playing, without sleeping or eating or going to class lasted for three or four months. My close group of friends soon disappeared—I’d get the occasional text…
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31 Great Quotes About Being In Your 20s
When you’re in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you’ve reached your thirties, it is every five or ten…
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5 Most Frustrating Ages To Be
A 16-year-old girl, slowly melting in the pitiless cauldron that is high school, suddenly wanting to kiss boys and date them instead of sticking your tongue out at them or…
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20 Ways To Deal With People Who Annoy The Crap Out Of You
Don’t entertain people who want to argue irrationally. Just don’t.
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8 Things People Will Say To You When You’re Single
“My aunt never got married, and she is perfectly happy!”
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The Pros And Cons Of Having Long Hair
I feel sexy and feminine all the time, even without makeup or a cool outfit. It’s the best accessory and goes with everything.
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How To Prove You Love Her
You can stand in the rain for an hour. You can keep standing in the rain. You can stand in the rain until you become the rain.
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They Always Come Running Back, Even After They Break Your Heart
What part of “You broke my heart” don’t you understand?
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Why Coming Home Is Hard
We haven’t seen each other in what will be 14 months. We are 5,000 miles apart. We haven’t spoken face-to-face in over a year.
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The Best Of Carrie Bradshaw: In Honor of 15 Years Of SATC
And if you can find someone to love the you you love, well, that’s just fabulous.
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22 Signs You’re A Crazy Girl
All of your friends know to go to you for advice for sex, masturbation, porn, relationships, and generally delicate stuff that they wouldn’t be comfortable asking anyone else.
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The Urge To Rip Up Love And Start Again
The problem of being me, I’m slowly starting to believe, is not a curse to be carried tiredly through life, or to be mollified by reckless pleasure-seeking (I’ve tried that).…
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15 Best Things About Living On Long Island During The Summer
Strong Island is the only place to spend your summer vacation.
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You Put The ‘U’ In Awkward… Oh Wait
Do you ever go to sit down at a table and there’s complete and utter, bottomless silence.
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The Difference Between Being In Love And Being In Love With Love
When you are in love with love, you are in the relationship for its benefits, and you cower away from more difficult aspects.
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The 8 Signs Of A Bad Relationship
You have those “silent dinners” you always feared.
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14 Ways You Know It’s Love — Real Love
2. You think of ways you will love them more than you think of the ways you hope they will love you.
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The 20 Most Irrational Fears
8) Mold. I am deathly afraid of mold. If I open the refrigerator and take something out, or open up the bread and it’s covered in fungus, I will scream…
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11 Things To Do When Your Crush Doesn’t Want You Back
Realize how much you were happy to exaggerate or ignore because you wanted to keep the image you have of them in your head completely perfect.
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15 Words To Remember When You’re Going Through A Rough Time
Your thoughts will be reflected in behaviors, so try to limit the pessimistic ones.
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38 Little Things That Make You Feel Great
30. When a song you loved in 1998 comes on the radio after you completely forgot it existed.
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The Birthday Party
“That’s categories,” my sister explained, “choose a category and we all have to say something that belongs under the category you said. No repeats.”
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5 Things Women Should Start Doing Again
I don’t even mind if my head smells like a dead raccoon by day six, I want to look perpetually Adele-chic and not have to sacrifice four hours of my…
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16 Quotes From Terence McKenna
[Sand dunes] bear a resemblance to the force that created them, wind. It is as if each grain of sand were a bit inside the memory of a natural computer.
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I Snooped Through My Boyfriend’s Texts
During the two years we were together, he cheated on me with six girls I was well acquainted with.
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The 32 Greatest Quotes About Los Angeles
“I love Thanksgiving turkey … it’s the only time in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger
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7 Stupid Questions We Need To Stop Asking
“Don’t you know that [insert junk food here] is bad for you?”
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10 Signs Somebody Has A Crush On You
1. If They Add You On Facebook/Follow You On Twitter RIGHT After You Meet
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Love Lessons From The Dudes of Disney… From A Guy’s Perspective
Over time, Disney princes will mess you up worse than a bad speed habit.
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Who Your Real Friends Are
Your real friends are the people who are there when it counts.
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15 Things Gay Men Need To Stop Doing
2) Describing yourself as “straight-acting.” What does that even mean?
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I Want A Guy Who Will Write A Song For Me
The lyrics would be from the heart, and he’d tell me the truth: that I am difficult to love but that he loves me anyway.
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7 Beauty Routines That Prove Women Are The Stronger Sex
We have all gone for that teased look to get some of that fantastic volume that everyone loves so much, only to realize it turns your entire head into a…
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21 Problems With Dating In Your 20s
For financial reasons, especially in big cities, it’s so easy to move in together that you can’t even tell if you really want to or are ready to, you just…
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Some People Just Won’t Appreciate You Until You’re No Longer Around
Sometimes people can’t see what they have; they only see what’s missing.
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9 Life Coping Mechanisms You Might Not Realize You’re Using
4. Self-deprecating humor.
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Twitter-Wide Texting Experiment Destroys Relationships, Also Is V. Funny
Yesterday Fielder asked his followers to text their significant others with “I haven’t been fully honest with you,” then wait one hour before texting them anything. Here’s what’s happened thus…
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What Most Boys Want In A Girlfriend
You brag about us to your girlfriends, you trawl our Facebook photos lustfully, you demand our attention through text and through increasing demands on our time.
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What Most Girls Want In A Boyfriend
We want to be loved, in a way that isn’t directly tied to how pure we are sexually or how much we’re willing to “give away.”
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22 Things We Have To Stop Sharing On Facebook
Posts that are cross-posted from your Twitter/Pinterest/Vine — if we wanted to see these things, we would be following you on these platforms.
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Go For It And Just Kiss Him Already
Kiss him. Pull him towards you when the two of you are sitting in his car.
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26 Things That Happen When You Grow Up In An African House
10. Your parents will call you from upstairs, downstairs, outside, etc., to hand them something that is literally 10 centimeters away from them.
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Want Me To Cum 4 U?
“I am only interested if you do it side by side,” I type.
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Abstract Love Is Better Than No Love At All
Give me another dose, I say, and move determinedly towards him. He needs encouragement, I say, once I get there and find him desperately trying to shirk the flawless shell…
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19 Signs You Are Burned Out (And Probably Need A Vacation)
No one wants to talk to you anymore because every conversation has a 86.73% chance of you ending up in tears.
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5 Things Men Should Start Doing Again
There are few things more depressing than seeing an entire generation of men who have perhaps one suit at best, and break it out only for weddings, funerals, and any…