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Your alarm goes off at 6 a.m. You groan and reach for the snooze button as quick as you can. Your second alarm goes off 5 minutes later and you would do anything for 20 more minutes of cheek to pillow action. You force yourself to get up and you're already in a bad mood. …
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I'm so proud to be a part of this moment. The moment when the world decided to finally start listening. I can say that I've never really watched the ESPYS before, and I'm not sure exactly what inclined me to watch the second half of the award's show tonight. Maybe it was a brief clip …
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng reads like flipping through a photo album that's worn, burnt at the edges, and holds all of the sophistication of an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, while intertwining with the racial discrimination issues and societal expectations we deal with in our world today, while at the same time redefining the beauty …
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The cool stones were damp from evening rain and the golden light of the Piazza bounced off of shallow puddles. The soothing moon kept watch over the city. We sat on a bench, my friends and I, soaking it in with dormant phones switched off in our pockets and melting gelato in our hands. A …
I grew up as Irish as you can get. My parents’ family names, Mahoney and Collopy, originate from the cities of Cork and Limerick. Every St. Patrick’s Day we eat corned beef and cabbage with dry Irish soda bread and yellow Irish butter. My pale cheeks wear light freckles and I can’t last five minutes …
co·in·ci·dence kōˈinsədəns/ noun plural noun: coincidences 1. a remarkable concurrence of events or circumstances without apparent causal connection. Do you believe in fate? In the idea that all around us there are small miracles, signs even – from the universe or some sort of power? Or are they just coincidences - things that happen "without …
At 1:23 AM Stars just out of reach behind the blinds Cold dark earth beyond thin walls She's craving to feel, craving something That will push her too close. Too close to what she fears the most. The computer's glow keeps her eyes wide Much brighter than the light from outside. Tossing and turning …
How is it possible that when someone leaves this world, we are blinded by sorrow, and fear, and overwhelmed with thoughts of them that bleed into everything we see. It’s painful in every way – mentally, emotionally, and physically. You don’t know what pain feels like until you’re told that someone you love has died. …
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"In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a long time, at a single glorious thing: a flame of red geranium outside my bedroom window. And then another: my daughter in a yellow dress. And another: the perfect outline of a full, …
The 1975 Concert I went to The 1975 concert last night in Lowell, MA and now I’m sitting on my couch in my living room simultaneously watching interviews of Matt Healy and every music video the band has on YouTube. About a year ago, the only song I knew by them was “Chocolate” and now …
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