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It Happened To Me: My Mother Predicted Her Own Death - On My 18th Birthday
From as early as I can remember, without any rationale for it, my mother talked about dying young every day.
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It Happened To Me: In The Time It Took To Watch The 'Barbie' Movie With My Daughter, I Decided To End My 20-year Marriage To Her Dad. So I…
None of us ever expected me to do that, especially so suddenly. And I didn’t expect it to affect my relationship with Skylar the way it did — and still…
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I’m Trans — And JK Rowling Saved My Life
I was gutted recently when the Harry Potter author successfully obliterated more rights for people like me. She was the key to my survival when I came…
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My Frenemy Died, But I Realized I'm a Frenemy Magnet and Can Attract More and More!
My very first best friend's favorite game was "Let's Beat The Shit Out Of Genevieve." Friendships only went downhill after that. (But hey, at least some…
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It Happened To Me: My Aunt Attempted to Baptize Me in Her Swimming Pool (A Jane Magazine Rejection)
My cousin almost killed me and my aunt tried to get me to accept Jesus during a visit to my dying grandma. Jane politely rejected this essay nearly 25…
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It Happened To Me: My Husband Said He Was 'Going Away For A Weekend Alone' — But I Was Secretly Reading Every Exchange Between Him And The…
Finding the journal detailing his affair was only Part One of my nightmare. As he continued to document every lie and misdeed, I resorted to desperate…
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It Happened To Me: I Painted My Dad's Kitchen High On Acid
What's the worst that could happen when you give a teenager a powerful hallucinogenic drug, a ladder, and a bunch of paint?
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It Happened To Me: I Was A Glamorous Fashion Magazine Editor-In-Chief — And Nobody Knew I Was Homeless
In between fancy dinners, hotel parties, and snorting cocaine with $100 bills, I slept in Central Park and washed in public bathrooms. I kept my double…
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My Strange (Easter) Addiction
Every year, I become obsessed with seasonal jelly beans to the point that I stash bags throughout the apartment
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Charlie Connell
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Hi! I'm Jane's Brother And I'm Here To Help: If I Made The Product Laws
While I work on getting these highly practical regulations on the books, here are some cheap and easy workarounds to solve the egregious omissions of…
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Ben Pratt
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I Binge Watched Infomercials While My Husband Fought Cancer
To cope with the sadness, I filled my days with Law & Order Marathons — and in turn got way too familiar with the sex-crazed Blue Chew girlies and the…
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I Don’t Want To Pay For Concentration Camps
Paying taxes is never fun, but it felt especially bleak this year
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Charlie Connell
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