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- Aug 31, 2018
- 4 min
When Your Heart Sounds Different Than Your Mind
He told me he could picture us getting married one day. He brushed his beard against the side of my face, his wet lips grazing my ear, and he smiled as he said it. We were sitting intertwined on his black leather couch after we got home from a friend’s birthday party. He had drank quite a bit throughout the night - a few Johnnie Walker Black’s neat. I could tell he was feeling more relaxed and happier than usual. I laughed it off and didn’t take it too seriously. We had been
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- Jul 23, 2016
- 3 min
Love and Loss: Never Be Ashamed of How You Feel
Love has always taken the spotlight of my life. Whether blissfully in love or desperately heartbroken, it has always commanded and depleted me. I hate to admit it, but there have been far too many times where I’ve let myself become devoured by love’s uncertainty to the point where I’d be paralyzed from it. If I had gotten into a really bad argument with a boyfriend, if I felt something was questionably off between us or if there was a lingering distance growing, I’d become na
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- Jan 30, 2016
- 8 min
Letters to the Girls I've Been
In honor of my blog's two year anniversary, I thought it would be fitting to write a post about much of what I have experienced in my life so far - through the form of writing letters to myself at all different ages. I got the idea from Sara Bareilles' book, Sounds Like Me, which I thought was such a beautiful way to reflect on all of the types of people we become at various points in our lives. It's interesting to go back and really think about who you were and how much you
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- Aug 21, 2014
- 3 min
The Unsent Letters to the Men of My Life
Have you ever written a letter to an old boyfriend, articulating things that were left unsaid, writing for a sense of closure, only to leave it unsent? I’ve done that twice in my life and both times I thought I was completely over my ex. I was happy to finally feel unattached and independent, only to soon hear a song that reminded me of him or to unexpectedly stumble across an old photo of us, causing my heart to drop into my stomach and knots to fill the void. Alanis Moriset
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