My life actually isn’t a movie: A personal essay
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Spoiler alert — life isn’t a movie. It doesn’t have an inciting incident, rising action, climax, declining action and resolution.
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Dear Friend: A personal essay
dear friend, i’ve been trying to figure out how to talk to you… delete dear friend, i saw this thing that reminded me of you… delete dear friend, i miss you… delete Growing up, the worst punishment my parents could give me was making me stay indoors.
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Redefining Homesickness: A Personal Essay
But, what is homesickness? Breaking down the word seems pretty straightforward: home and sickness. Except, that breakdown doesn’t capture the spirit of the word quite right.
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Leaving Home
I loved how she warmed up December / I loved how she swore it made up for when she burned me in July / I loved how she stayed up with me
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Stop comparing women’s sports to men’s sports
Even so, the women were paid less for their efforts. There are countless examples of female athletes earning less than they are due in sports.
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Sunflowers: A poem
Sun and Flower were truly best of friends / Until Sun left Flower at summer’s end.
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Endings: A poem
Like the intro and conclusion, the grafs I am most unsure in/ Like those parts of a play where actors stand just behind the curtain
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Redditors successfully ‘Occupy Wall Street’ – or do they?
Most recently, the sentiments that inspired the Occupy movement have seemingly relocated to the virtual plane of the r/wallstreetbets subreddit.
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The vaccine is here, but will people take it?
Most frustrating of all the reasons that vaccine administration stalled is people’s hesitancy to take it.
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Zoom drowning: A personal essay
The sweet sensation of used muscles became my favorite feeling just after waking up every morning.
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