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Your Life Might Not Look The Way You Thought It Would, And That's OK

By Christan Marashio

May 08, 2013

Christan Marashio thought she'd be married by the time she was 27. Now, single at 44, she shares how she's letting go of that unrealistic picture in her head. When I was about 9 or 10, I decided that I would be married by age 27. I don’t know where I got that number. It sounded like a good age at the time. At 10 years old, I thought I was supposed to be married and have children before I...

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How I Came To Love Metrosexual And Hipster Men

By Leah Berkenwald

May 07, 2013

Leah Berkenwald shares how the "Straightest Girl in the World" learned to stop worrying about gender and love real men with feelings and fashion-sense. Growing up in Northampton, Mass., a liberal oasis of lesbian and queer culture, I grew up assuming it was likely, if not probable that I’d turn out to be gay. But as it happened, I was straight. I love men, masculinity, machismo, and body...

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What I Learned About Friendship After Going Through A Divorce

By James Bernard Frost

May 07, 2013

Sometimes, the best way to be a friend is just to listen. There is a picture taken of all of us in the backyard of my house the summer before it happened: my wife and our two kids; Lilith, her husband, and her little scientist; Monique, her husband, and her future goth; and Ophelia, and her two towheads. In the picture, my son has his fists full of chocolate birthday cake, my daughter has a ga...

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