When heaven gave out locks before my debut as a newborn, my angel on the assembly line must have gotten distracted and given me five times the normal allotment. Perhaps he or she had skipped breakfast. It happens. My mane is not your normal girl’s hair, with its unenviable coarse, horsetail texture, curly frizz on […]
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I’m fat. I always have been, and, honestly, I probably always will be. My jeans make a very specific “swishy” sound when my thighs rub together, and there are parts of me that resemble cottage cheese. Before you jump to conclusions, let me expand a little more. I’m fairly healthy, I have no chronic illnesses, […]
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It’s easy to look at someone who can’t fit through a door properly and wonder in astonishment: “How did they even get to that point?” Truth is, they are just as dismayed as you are. It’s easy to write out labels and stamp them onto people; you’ll soon find that there is no open space […]
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“Look, I found some gummy vitamins in the back of the pantry!” announced my mom excitedly. “Okay… You’re sure they’re still good?” “Of course! Vitamins don’t go bad.” (Spoiler alert: they do, sort of. While they don’t produce toxins, they lose their potency and effectiveness if taken after they expire.) I stared down into the […]
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_ I work as an intern in an office where I sit in a room with a handful of other interns. They are all females in their twenties, like myself. Pretty much every day, someone will bring in snacks to share with the group. As it neared the end of the day tonight, a box […]
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Needless to say, as you grow older, your body changes. And with those changes comes a lot of insecurity. My sister and I were always the skinny kids, the ones the aunts and grandmothers would remark about: “Oh, they must eat nothing at all!” “Why look at you, you’re like sticks!” “Are you sure you […]
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“Excuse me, but can I take a picture with you?” All three of us spun around. My family and I were roaming the streets of Italy when a podgy, quinquagenarian tourist decked in a straw hat with a DSLR slung across his neck posed this query. “Sorry, who?” my dad probed. The man’s friends laughed […]
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Everyone will no doubt go through challenges in their life, and these can be hard to overcome. No matter how hard you try, you may feel like nothing will help or that, even when you try your best, you can’t see any difference. However, the most important parts of overcoming challenges are usually the first […]
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Something that is not talked about as often as it should be is the different types of depression people have. The only two mental illnesses I seem to hear about are anxiety and depression, but there are others that are very similar and can be confused easily. This is why many people don’t actually realize what […]
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