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When He Left Me
My apartment had never seemed more cold. It had never felt less like the place I actually lived, or more like a vague insult to my current state of aloneness.
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10 Books You WILL Read This Summer
From Julio Cortázar to Virginia Woolf to Luna Miguel and Andy Warhol, these are authors and books I love.
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Good Sex And Erotic Power: Why We Need To Lose Virginity And De-Center Marriage
Too many religious communities, the one in which I grew up included, prize–more than service to and advocacy for the oppressed–pre-marital virginity. To “lose your virginity” before your wedding day…
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7 Ways To Stop Being In Your Imaginary Relationship
Any time you catch yourself day-dreaming about what it would be like to be with them, give yourself a slap in the face. I’m not kidding. Nothing is realer than…
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18 Ways To Be A Better Best Friend
3. Be there. Friends can get really good at disappearing on each other, as we learn to take peoples’ presence for granted.
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How To Tell When Someone Is Bad For You
I think that people start caring about us when we stop caring about them, as sick as it is. We move up and down in these odd games of power,…
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How To Write A Great Essay About Anything
An essay is a lot like a military operation. It takes discipline, foresight, research, strategy, and, if done right, ends in total victory.
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21 Dating Truths We Need To Realize
5. If they’re talking about their ex all the time, they are not over their ex.
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25 Things I Am Still Learning At 25
There’s no perfect path for your life that you have yet to uncover. You simply must “do you.” This takes endless sacrifice and a hell of a lot of heart.
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What Does A Strong Female Role Model Look Like?
Wonder Woman embodies the contradictions of any female hero in popular culture.
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30 Things You Will Definitely Miss About College
29) Skipping class. Giving some lame-ass excuse about why you missed. Expecting to just roll into the final exam and pass everything. In real life, you can’t skip that much…
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16 Things From The 90s That (Definitely) Screwed Us Up
How could a CatDog even happen? Why didn’t they ever separate? What is the meaning of life?
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35 Lies Men Tell Themselves
8. Overweight men deserve a chance to be loved for every facet of their personality and life, but no fatties for me.
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Giving Dating A Chance After You’ve Been Cheated On
Being cheated on makes you look at more questions than you would ever have willingly asked yourself.
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Tips For Being A Healthy Couple
Men, as a general precept, are exponentially less likely to ask for affirmation or demand it, but that doesn’t mean they don’t need to hear it.
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What Every Woman Learns From Every Man
While they appreciate a little effort, they don’t want the morning after to become a twisted game of Chatroulette. Let them know what they’re getting: the real you.
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If My Online Dating Profile Had Ever Been Honest
Hi, my name is Jeffrey and I’m looking for the love of my life. In my head, she is a mix of Lake Bell, Jenny Slate and the Jewish woman…
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“I Think We Should Just Be Friends.”
This must be something else if it’s not heartbreak. Heart-scraped knees. Heartbruise.
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A Definitive Guide To White Privilege
A white person doesn’t think of themselves as white. White people are just people.
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I’m In Love With You And I Hate It
I’m trying to come up with normal things to text you.
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You Say You Don’t Want A Boyfriend, But You Know That’s Not True
I want to be in love. I want to get it over with so that I can move along to all of the other parts of life that seem so…
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Read To Lead: How To Digest Books Above Your “Level”
People always ask me if the books I carry around are for school because they’re full of notes, flags and folded pages–why would anyone work so hard on something they…
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8 Things That Wake You Up In The Middle Of The Night And Whether Or Not You Should Get Out Of Bed For Them
You fell asleep watching a DVD, and the menu is constantly replaying. It’s really annoying.
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The 7 Questions That Tell You Who You Are
Look at what you want to perpetuate to other people, when you yourself can’t find the words. What strikes you most is who you are.
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How To Make Friends When You’re A 20-Something
Pore over the ways that you have successfully made friends in the past.
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18 Things That Will Make You Smile
4. When you observe “friends” who so obviously like each other as more than friends.
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6 Male Behaviors Which Will Not Result In Sex
Unfortunately, for those who clearly went to the Compliment Into The Cooter School of Sexual Prowess, we are not items on a Chuck E Cheese prize shelf which can be…
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6 Ways To Respond To Life’s Little Disappointments
2. Do something active. I know this may seem silly but exercise does give you endorphins.
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30 Greatest Quotes About Women
“I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.” – Mary Wollstonecraft
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A Cheat Sheet For Winning At Life In Your 20s
Decide your “why” for working. If you want to make a lot of money, be willing to potentially sacrifice time, effort, and personal satisfaction.
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DWA: Dating With Allergies
Even now that gluten-intolerance is more mainstream, it’s still a tricky thing to date with. As are nut allergies, celiac disease, lactose intolerance, and the great granddaddy of them all:…
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How To Lose Weight Without Hating Your Body
We know that if we eat whole, clean, nutritionally dense foods, we will feel better.
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The 43 Greatest Quotes About Being In College
“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.” — Frank Zappa.
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The Millennial Coloring Book
I wrote a novel about the Olsen twins and You’ve Got Mail and Peter Gallagher.
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25 Things To Remind Yourself To Do At 25
6. Don’t mistake comfort for happiness. Comfort can sometimes just be a more pleasant word for fear.
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7 Ways You Know It’s Time To Get Back In The Dating Game
The relationships we thought would never end did. All the hopes we had of spending forever with someone were crushed and so were we. We had a period of rejection-induced-loathing-filled-misery.…
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19 Ways To Deal With Regrets
Everyone has regrets. Historical is hysterical. It’s easy to look back at the past now and see the road signs we missed. The forks in the road we could’ve taken.…
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We Are People We Could Have Loved
It is hard to pick out scenes for this story. How to discern what’s important. How do you compartmentalize the brittle histories between two people?
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50 Great Rory-Lorelai Exchanges From ‘Gilmore Girls’
Hey, let’s look into each other’s eyes and say “I wish I were you” at exactly the same time — maybe we’ll pull a ‘Freaky Friday.’
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The Key To Success Is Learning How To Get Yelled At
Getting yelled at is terrible. But, like most terrible things, it is also an inescapable part of life — especially a life that involves healthy risks.
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Pretty Boys Are The Worst
Pretty boys aren’t the worst because they care about how they look — we should all care about that — but because that’s all they care about.
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Break Up With Your Boyfriend Now Please
As our friendship escalates in intensity, I feel that I, being your borderline platonic/romantic companion, am obligated to advise you to terminate your relationship with the Anonymous Nobody Male.
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What You Lose When You Lose A Dog
They always love us, even when we don’t deserve it. Their hearts know no limit to the amount of attention or affection someone should get, and they are made almost…
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The Boyfriend Test
Will he, come September, watch ‘Homeland’ with me on a weekly basis, or at least not prevent me from doing so?
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22 Reasons You’re Still Not Over Your Ex
You have absolutely no energy to start getting to know someone all over again, you just want to be with someone you already know perfectly well.
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Why You Can’t Let Go
You can’t let go because you’re worried that if you do, what you’re so desperately hoping for will fall apart. I have news for you. You’re tearing it down yourself.…
