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Portrait of an Eternal Romantic
Love is blind, but can it also be deaf? A tale of romance, salad, and misophonia (aka, the aural sensitivity that causes some people to fly into a rage at the sound of chewing).
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“You are a decent-looking nice lady — there’s nothing wrong with your bait,” he declared. “Clearly, there’s something wrong with your hook.”
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Is One Really the Loneliest Number? Five Bloggers on the Virtues of Solitude
Five bloggers on the virtues of alone time, with photos from our recent “Solitude” challenge.
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Back to Your Roots: Blogging About Genealogy and Family History
Genealogists are coming together this week at RootsTech, a conference exploring family history and technology. Here’s a look at a few genealogy blogs on WordPress.com.
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On Success
As the writer’s success as an author grew and grew, so did the abuse at home — until finally, she left the man who she loved, but who couldn’t allow her to succeed.
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A girl’s story
“But the boy had not been able to stop giving away the pieces of his heart, you see. And he had run out. There were none left to share with the girl.” A sad (and true) tale of depression, adultery, and divorce, made all the more moving for its simple storytelling style.
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Things I Never Told Her
At Granta, Marian Ryan pens a longform essay on rationalizing abuse, the vulnerability of the body, the failures of compassion, and being stalked on Facebook.
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from something larger
“there wasn’t much to it
the smell of mornings rain
on a steamy street”
A slip of paper, a relationship failing, a short poem. -
“Besides, being single, married, or anywhere in-between should have no bearing on whether or not we pursue the things that make us happy.”
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The Ultimate Data-Driven Guide To Weddings
At FiveThirtyEight, Walt Hickey commissioned a poll to solve, once and for all, the thorniest wedding-etiquette conundrums (including plus ones, who to invite, and who’s expected to pay).
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A Proustian View on Being Unfollowed
How do we really feel when someone unfollows our blog or our Facebook account? In this personal reflection, Andrew Reid Wildman unpeels the “layers upon layers of emotion that can find themselves interwound with social media.”
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“But after the birth of our daughter . . . struggling for balance in our careers and adult lives and family responsibilities, I have come to understand both intimacy and marriage in new ways. Sometimes, intimacy isn’t closeness but distance.”
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Undone
“A relationship of a paper receptacle
With its four corners, glued folds
A flap that awaits closure
With many words waiting to be
Understood”
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ILY
ILY is a web magazine that explores the broad theme of love from multiple angles and through a wide range of genres, like essays, poetry, and interviews.
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The Perfect Stranger
“That was that, a beautiful boy passing in and out of my consciousness. A rare solar event, spectacular to witness but never to be glimpsed again in this lifetime.” When you never actually meet, a perfect stranger always remains perfect.
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