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The truth is, it feels so good to be bad. It feels so good to become the woman I was always meant to be.

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The kind of love you’re looking for? Well it’s the beautiful, pure, honest, open love you deserve. The love with a good woman. And we’re out here. We exist and we’re looking for you.

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When you’re the ‘good girl’ you’ll always be misunderstood, you’ll be labeled ‘uncool,’ maybe ‘weird’ but never loved, never given the attention you deserve, never getting the ones you want because you live in a society that praises the bad and the bold, the loud and obnoxious, the ones who don’t like to sit in a corner.

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Being a “good girl” comes with a lot of pressure to be well-behaved, kind, generous, modest, enthusiastic, polite, and friendly at all times, and frankly, it’s very unrealistic. Why do I pursue this perfection?

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In her first book of autobiographical stories, Nina Concepción chronicles the moments in a person’s life that we can’t (and won’t) forget.