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How can my so-called family, the extended relatives that I grew up with, consider family as everything when for so long they’ve denied my immediate family anything?

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We all have faith in something – whether it’s God, science, institutions, ideologies, and/or our own conceptions of the world, we have faith

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If you’re an atheist, you might’ve read that quote and immediately thought of radical Christianity, Islam, you name it. Maybe you thought of the Tea Party or Birthers or the far, far left. But what are your strongest beliefs?

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Now, after realizing I spent way more time imagining the dress (A-line dress… wait no, Princess-line with lace trimmings) than the woman wearing it, and now that I have taken the moniker of fairy princess for myself, I believe that running away with the Best Man is a far more likely scenario.