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“I didn’t think that I’d be able to do a lot of the writing I do now, so why not see if I could do something else I considered off limits?”

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Last week, five Thought Catalog staff writers met up in Venice Beach, CA for four days of writing, brainstorming, and fun in the sun.

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Family is a transient concept in the modern age. We have to make our own family.

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From scrubbing an ex out of your life, to letting secrets out of the closet, to what it’s like to be actually addicted to cleaning, we all interpreted this theme in our own way.

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Today on TC our staff and contributors are exploring the topic of college.

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We’re writing about the ones that weren’t quite today.

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Today, Facebook held a special event in San Fransisco to announce a new email, or IM, or SMS, or some sort of messaging system kind of thing that will soon be going into effect so as to make online messaging simpler – “simpler” being the key word here.