December 2009
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home is where the (fill in the blank) is.
I’ve lived at 1423 Shields Drive my entire life. On and off since college, of course, but my residence has pretty consistently there for the past nineteen and a half years. I’ve never moved, a fact that my mother once prided herself on.
Then, my parents got a divorce. We are now losing our house—almost 15 payments behind. We are losing my childhood, my innocence, and my memory of the past.
But...
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the love of all things, bad.
Whenever something tragic, sad, or just plain bad happens in your life, it can sometimes feel like the world is crashing down and that you are just going to die right then and there. It’s like nothing can be worse than the feeling in that moment, nothing can hurt you more.
However, when series of bad things start happening to you, it can feel like you are cursed. Of course, throughout this...
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a month later.
If you are a woman and you ever shave your head, don’t ever expect anything. After doing that deed on November 1, I assumed I would be kissing my relationship life goodbye, and that I would get comments of ruder sorts from strangers. This statement has obviously proved false, with boy attention now at least two-fold, and strangers simply smiling at me rather than looking the other way.
All of...