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The new normal doesn’t put daily life on hold. Rather, it makes it harder by adding in extra steps to the possibility of death. We’ve all thought about this during
Although June has been a tough month for the world, Pride still managed to continue the fight on the interwebs. After all, this isn’t the first time the community has
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When I first received a non-apology apology, I didn’t know that it was one. “Look, I’m sorry if you didn’t like it,” a fellow student leader said after I called
It was decided: I didn’t want to be successful when I became an adult. I wanted success the same time most teenagers wanted success–right at that very moment. I had
Last weekend, I went through a breakup. It played out like the highlight reel of any other breakup: Empty but heavy, frustrating as hell, and like a punch in the
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