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Dear Girls, Please Shave Your Pubic HairBut 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 SeattleDoes your city have a giant pink elephant giving itself a bath? 
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6 Signs It’s Not Going To Work Out2. You’re kind of avoiding introducing them to your friends. 
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20 Things Most Americans Don’t Know About History16. 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 DrunkSoon, 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 ReunionGeeks 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 FastEveryone 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 DramaUnderstand that it’s not easy to hear how someone you love very much is dissatisfied with you. 
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You Led Me OnI’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 TravelIn 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 Men6. If we don’t orgasm, it’s not to spite you. 
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21 More Dating Truths We Need to Realize13. 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 DownThrow 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 JapanYou 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 FineThe 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 QuotesDon’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 With3. 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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7 Things You Think In A Long-Term RelationshipWill we eventually sink into the molasses of romantic stability? 
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When You Kill In The Name Of LoveSatanic 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 CityA 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 FriendBut 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 YouI 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 Way5. Inadvertently ruin every relationship with everyone else because of him. 
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How To Deal With BurnoutIt’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 ReligionThe 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 YouIf your peace and acceptance is contingent on someone else, and if your hope is external, you do not really have any of those things. 
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25 Facts About Turning 25 That Will Make You Feel WeirdStephen Hawking published A Brief History of Time, which means your entire lifetime is excluded from his history of time. 
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Being Alone Is Powerful, And Other TruthsThe more you don’t wear makeup, the better you look without it. 
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7 Stupid Things People Will Say To You When You’re Unemployed“Why don’t you just take an internship?” 
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Things Girls Say To Each Other In the BathroomDo I look fat? I feel large and in charge. 
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7 Things Every Woman Should Accomplish In Her 20sBut being able to say “No, I deserve better than this,” and moving on to actually find something that is, is crucial to finding out what it is you really… 
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Why I Am Not A ChristianIt wasn’t till sophomore year, after a conference over Christmas break, that I started to truly give my life to God. 
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How I Know I Am Getting OlderBut mostly, I’m content. I’m just…feeling really OK with myself, and if that’s what getting older is all about, then bring it on. 
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‘Game Of Thrones’ Women, Ranked By Hotness (This Time With GIFs)Presented, again, without comment, but this time with GIFs. 
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25 Things You Didn’t Know About ‘The Great Gatsby’At the time of his death in 1940, Fitzgerald claimed to have made just $4,000 off the novel. 
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Things I’m Learning About Being In A Relationship For The First TimeHere I am, trying out the couple thing, which I can only compare to learning a foreign language as an adult: when you’re young, the knowledge seems to seep in… 
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Ranting About My Problems With ‘The Great Gatsby’ On The Train: It’s All Jay-Z’s FaultWho approved of Fergie? 
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8 Signs You Are Actually A CatIt’s magical. You are radiating your usual stink lines of reservation and judgment, when all of a sudden someone even passingly mention something that sounds like a food, and you… 
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The 25 Things That Will Make You Happy At 2510. Being young enough to still experience things for the first time. 
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Abercrombie & Fitch, Cool Kids, And The HomelessUnfortunately, while our culture claims to not like bullies, our consumer practices show otherwise. 
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20 Little, Beautiful Things9. Running to greet someone you love at the train station. 
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30 Quotes About Love, For People With Too Many Feelings“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.” 
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All The Straight Guys I’ve Ever Slept WithEveryone thinks gay guys pursue straight guys, trying to “make” them gay. But let me tell you, I don’t pursue straight guys like that. Sometimes, it’s the straight guys who… 

































































 
		