To the Person I Thought I Was, High school has changed you. It has made you cold. Buried beneath the layers of the façade you cake on, you are still there, the real you. It will take some time to dig her back out, but she will see the light of day eventually. Right now, […]
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Dating and summer go hand in hand. It’s warm out, you can enjoy yourself, and you can get to know your potential suitor all at once. Whether you love the outdoors or prefer a more cool, ventilated space for a get-to-know-you kind of dating experience, look on below for some practical summer date ideas: Have […]
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Basketball is a pretty big deal in Indiana. In 1986, Hollywood made a movie called Hoosiers and filmed it about forty minutes from where I live. It’s, of course, all about the relationship between basketball and our great state in the middle of the Midwest. Many of us, myself included, dedicate our beloved Friday nights for the sake […]
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Women can’t drive my car, he said, adjusting his mirrored sunglasses. Because it’s stick? I asked. Because they don’t know how to drive fast, he said. My mind flashing a warning like flares after an accident. In his lenses I saw my reflection and the two roads before me — the girl who could giggle […]
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The first boy I kiss doesn’t write. He doesn’t understand why my bedroom walls tell stories that are sixteen years too long. He does not write novels on my spine with his fingertips. The next boy I kiss calls himself a fan of mine, and I find him flipping through the notebooks in my childhood […]
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Long Island City isn’t really in Long Island and the East River is technically a tidal strait and our date was actually more of a stroll through my neighborhood, the last night of August, our first night together in Queens. The Manhattanite, shocked by how far his city extends into not quite . city, […]
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