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12 Awesome, Non-Cliched Date Ideas All Inspired By Things I've Done With The...
The last time I dated, a decade ago, I pretty much went out with anyone who asked me. I had a profile on Nerve Personals, the OkCupid of my day, and I remember going on a lot of dates with people who...
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IKEA Has Banned Hide And Seek In Its Stores: Here's 7 New IKEA-Specific...
Ooooh look at all the tasteful furnishings.This is the good kind of problem to have: IKEA in the Netherlands has formally banned hide and seek in its stores. It did this because 32,000 people signed up...
View ArticleIT HAPPENED TO ME: I Was Shamed By My Boyfriend for Forgiving The Friend Who...
My boyfriend and I were going through a rough patch. It was eight months into the relationship and our ideological differences and general incompatibility were coming to the forefront. We argued about...
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WWJD: Jane Tries to Help A Reader Who Tried Suicide
Wow, was there ever a ton of range in the texts I got from y'all this week. Lots of questions about guys, some about body image, and at least one heavy one that I ended up thinking of a potential...
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What Even IS That Amber Note In All Of My Fragrances?
So are we all just going to stand around and pretend like we get what the “amber” note is in all of our fragrances? Because last time I checked, amber was like, a rock. A few months ago, I felt like...
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IT HAPPENED TO ME: I Was Pro-Life Until I Accidentally Got Pregnant And...
When I was 22 years old, I left my boyfriend of four years. We had grown up together in Rural America—went to the same parties, had the same friends, etc. The breakup was a difficult one. My friends...
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This OBG-YN Is Showing Support for Low-Cost Contraception With IUD Jewelry
Photo courtesy of <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/sharlencreations?ref=l2-shopheader-name">sharlencreations</a>.Gender politics are getting some extra attention thanks to dangly earrings...
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How Being Diagnosed With Three Major Illnesses at 26 Cured My Hypochondria
When I was four, my mom tells me I enjoyed wrapping my legs in Ace bandages and pretending they were broken. I vaguely remember enjoying the feeling of sitting one out at playtime, lying listlessly on...
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I GOT CHEATED ON AND THEN I CHEATED: My Boyfriend Told Me He Had a Girlfriend...
The grounds where we worked together. I met him while working at concert. We had spent three days setting up for the show, and it was our last day there. Before he left to go home he hung...
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IT HAPPENED TO ME: Doctors Misdiagnosed a Tumor on My Spine for Two Years
It was 2006, Bush forty-three lorded over the country, Mitt Romney was rolling out a version of the Affordable Care Act in Massachusetts, and I was an acne ridden, pudgy, know-it-all, 18-year-old...
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6 Things I Absolutely Do Not Miss About Modeling
Capturing four hours of sleep and 100 percent over-it-ness. Photo by Ryan Bailey.There is, somewhere in the NoMad district of New York City, a modeling office with my card still on the wall, even...
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Strange Men Who Keep Calling Me “Thunder Thighs”: STOP IT
Once when I was around nine or 10, I looked in the mirror and noticed that I’d suddenly grown a fairly impressive pair of what can only be described as massive, “child-bearing” hips. This was sad for...
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IT HAPPENED TO ME: I Eat Garbage to Save Money and Help Reduce Food Waste
There are few things in the world that I love as much as good bread. Toasted and spread with golden butter and sweet raspberry jam, sliced and piled high with tangy tomatoes, savory cheese, and crunchy...
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How I Cope With Pop Culture Exhaustion
“I don’t caaaaaaaaaaare.”Here’s an admission: I work for a blog that does lots of pop culture coverage, and I spend a lot of time in conversations with my coworkers about pop culture going, “What? What...
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UNPOPULAR OPINION: I Don't Feel Guilty for Not Tipping You
Recently, an old “high school friend” turned “Facebook-friend-I-forgot-I-had” posted a photo of a receipt, and it popped up in my newsfeed. This receipt wasn’t hers -- it was for an unknown diner at a...
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I Used A Selfie Stick In Public and Annoyed All Of New York
While many possess a high pain threshold, I possess a high threshold for embarrassment. Maybe some dark recessed memory from my bully-ridden childhood spawned my ability to drown any sense of shame...
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IT HAPPENED TO ME: A Man Broke Into My House And I Totally Froze
It was a dark and stormy night on Friday the 13th in September. The creepy cliché of it all seemed too good to pass up, so I asked my new roommates if they wanted to watch a scary movie.The three of us...
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I Spent Five Days Eating Like Beyoncé in an Attempt to Become #Flawless
OK. So maybe I didn't spend five days eating exactly like Queen Bey. I don't know exactly what she actually eats on a daily basis, but I did get to try eight meals (3 breakfast, 5 lunch/dinners) from...
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9 Random Pop Culture References That Inspire My Beauty and Fashion Choices Today
Obviously, pop culture will always have a huge influence on fashion and beauty. But there's something about the pop culture we consume during our formative years that sort of imprints on us, driving us...
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