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How Your Heart Will Break When Heaven Takes Away A Cousin You Were Close To

How Your Heart Will Break When Heaven Takes Away A Cousin You Were Close To

Holly Riordan Holly Riordan
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When you lose a cousin, you reevaluate your own life, your own mortality, because their age wasn’t that far off from yours.

I Was Sexually Assaulted And Convinced It Was “No Big Deal”

I Was Sexually Assaulted And Convinced It Was “No Big Deal”

Anonymous
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It wasn’t until college that I finally talked about it and looking back I don’t know why I kept it a secret. Looking back I wish I hadn’t kept it a secret.

I Was In Love With My Cousin

I Was In Love With My Cousin

Chelsea Harris Chelsea Harris
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“Better not tell your momma,” she yelled. I could do nothing but shake my head.

People Really Do Need People

People Really Do Need People

Krystie Yandoli Krystie Yandoli
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How I learned it’s not just a cheesy lyric from a Barbra Streisand song, after all.

10 Things I’d Rather RSVP To Than Your Wedding

10 Things I’d Rather RSVP To Than Your Wedding

Rachel Hodin Rachel Hodin
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2. An Invitation to North Korea

I’ve Been Sleeping With My Cousin For The Past Year, And Now We Want To Tell Our Family

I’ve Been Sleeping With My Cousin For The Past Year, And Now We Want To Tell Our Family

Anonymous
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I knew I loved him pretty young. We would always be the two kids at the event who would go off and play by themselves, and when we hit our pre-teen/teenage years, the bond that we had formed playing in the backyard at a family gathering turned into something much more profound.

Someone I Never Got To Know

Someone I Never Got To Know

Bart Schaneman Bart Schaneman
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Gone at 21. Can anyone understand how terrible that is? You waited your whole life to have your freedom. You knew that you wanted to be left to make your own choices when your time came. Then to have that taken from you.

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