I can be honest to a fault. From time to time I accidentally offend someone by pointing out that revving the engine on their “hot rod” doesn’t make girls wanna sleep with them, or that they probably shouldn’t wear light pink when their complexion is practically translucent. But I honestly thought that by telling people these things I was doing…
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TEASE
I have a very open family, so when my mom and I talked for a half an hour about past sexual experiences at dinner yesterday, it wasn’t all that out of the ordinary. Call me old fashioned, but I’m not typically someone who will kiss on a first date, let alone have sex with someone. My mom always raised me…
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LIVING THE DREAM
& so are you (well, most of you). flash back to when you were, say, 12 years old. personally, i was probably looking at myself in the mirror, wondering what i’m gonna look like if & when i move past my “ugly phase.” i would dream about the college i would attend, the friends i would make, and what i’d…
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EMBRACING ME
I’ve always hated those people who become carbon copies of their significant other. Who lose their personal identity to become what they think the other person wants them to be. Yet, when I told my boyfriend that he needed to teach me everything about sports, something I don’t have any background in and am not sure I care all that…
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ALIVE
Wow. Looking back at my year so far, I’ve basically been living my dream life. moving to Hawaii, working in Mexico for three weeks, and now staying with my boyfriend in Portland. Yet, while I spent the last seven months of my life surfing, hiking, riding along mountains in the bed of a truck, petting horses during sunset, floating down…
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TRUST AGAIN
I’m in Portland, staying with my very recent boyfriend. Still very fresh in the honeymoon phase, I can’t get enough of him. My limbs are drawn to his, tracing my fingers along the veins that run from fingertips to forearm while we speed down the winding highway or our feet doing a dance under the kitchen table while we hang…
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SELF LOVE?
January 22, 2018 My family is one of those families who has a gym membership but never uses it. That is, until this week as I decided to get in shape. I am a competitive dancer, and have been for 13 years, but my body still isn’t where I want it to be. I hate how the bottom of my…
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NOTHING I CAN DO.
When I was a sophomore at the University of Michigan I worked at a coffee shop in the natural history museum. I’ve always wanted to work with specialty coffee downtown Ann Arbor, but was too intimidated to apply for a job without any experience, and not a lot of availability. My co-workers were other students from all different kinds of…
