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Your more (ahem) mature colleague likes to write things, even when it would save time for everyone if they would just type things.

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We were always at each other’s throats, able to magically tear each other apart and push each other’s buttons epically.

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Her miscarriage had been alluded to by Jay-Z in his song “Glory” but this was the first Beyonce had spoken of it.

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You look forward to nights you can go out with friends without them.

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Dismissing your exes as “crazy” if they do anything less than murder your cat is actually sort of rude and disrespectful of their feelings.

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If you were in a relationship? It’d only slow you down.

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I designed my own major in school despite being told that I had to make a choice between a) graduating with a ‘real degree’ and b) being unemployable.

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The best way to deal with rejection is to realize that it’s universal and not a decision by the universe that you are unlovable and undeserving of love.

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Everything — housing, food, drinks, activities — is more expensive. Places are harder to get tables at, harder to get into. Lines are longer. But isn’t that part of the thrill? That this love is never totally requited?

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Millions of people want to be in the NBA. But only 500 or so people each year have what it takes to be in the NBA. And you know what? Half those players are on the bench all the time. This is how everything works and odds are that you aren’t talented enough to make it as a writer, a top-tier surgeon or lawyer, entrepreneur, or whatever.