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Twilight Wisdom and the Strength of My Shadow.

Choosing to do something that alienated me from the social norms of acceptance has triggered my own voice of self-hatred as well as a hidden, aching loneliness. It’s forced me to confront my vulnerability with a raw and raging heart. It’s shown me the strange and often taboo paradox of grief ...

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Choose to Rewrite Happily Ever After.

I chose to fill my void with what I loved before I lost myself in the fuck-boy abyss. I chose to spend time traveling, reading, exploring different spiritualities, meeting new people. I chose to live for myself, and abandon my Disney-induced little-girl dreams. I chose a fairy tale in which the ...

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Rebellion of the Wild Bitch in Wonderland: A Faery Tale.

The Wild Bitch shrugged; it mattered not the things they would say, for they would never see her now. On her way to town, she planned her acts of rebellion. First, she would dance bare-breasted in the fountain, then she would go to church and sing sacrilegious hymns about sex and she-gods. For ...

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I’m Not Running Away from Myself Anymore.

I never really understood why certain men were fascinated by me. I’m not talking about those who wanted to destroy an inner piece of me, you know, by taking advantage of the fact that I was easy. And that’s the thing: I was easy. Given the right time and moment, you could have had me like ...

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Damn You, Destiny, and Fuck You, Fate.

I mourned for what I thought was our completion of each other. I mourned for our moral poverty and our perversion. I lamented our symbiotic synchronicity and our delicious heartburn disguised as desire. A little piece of my heart and soul left me that day, like a little piece of stiletto heel ...

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Lament of a Jezebel in June: Dark Night of the Painted Woman.

She pulled a ring off Her finger and tossed it in my direction. "I am wicked in their eyes because I have an opinion. I am unclean because I will not bow to the will of men, and I am a sinner because their god is not my god."

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Vince Lombardi on the Hidden Power of Mastering the Fundamentals.

The 1961 season was the beginning of Vince Lombardi’s reign as one of the greatest football coaches of all time. He would never lose in the playoffs again. In total, Lombardi won five NFL Championships in a span of seven years, including three in a row. He never coached a team with a losing record.

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Finding Life While Getting High on Death.

Red flags are those juicy peaches I want to get sloppy drunk with, make out with, and then, in a series of sweet but impulsively borderline-insane decisions, self-destruct with. People who desire destruction and eroticize death do so because danger makes this life feel all the more glittery, ...

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Top 12 Life, Love & Business Lessons For Dreamers & Artistpreneurs.

This heartbroken world doesn’t need more clowns or celebrities, it doesn’t need more pissed-off grown-ups, dream thieves, frowning or pretense from empty-hearted, superficial but successful people. It needs curiosity and passion, storytelling and truth, uniqueness and variety, dreamers crazy ...

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How I Became A 19th Century British Lady Tyler Durden.

When I added the lovely extra letters to words like 'neighbour' and 'favourite', or went 'to hospital' or back 'to University', it did not feel fraudulent, but like a gleeful, mischievous sort of conceit.

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