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Part 4: My 7 Deadly Sins – Wrath Becomes Me

By Margie | Published: October 16, 2012
Start from Part 1: My 7 Deadly Sins – That Gluttonous Girl After dinner I had the most horrible fight where I couldn’t even think straight. Its always the same argument.   The trigger is when he says “We can’t communicate”.  That’s when I feel like I can’t control myself.  I can’t stand hearing the same thing [...]
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Ep. 3: Falling Into Real Life – I Was Changing

By Maya | Published: September 25, 2012
Read Ep. 1: Falling Into Real Life – I Feel Like I don’t Fit In  Read Ep. 2: Falling Into Real Life – Lifting My Leg Off the Table  I went to college in Indiana, 800 or so miles away from my New Jersey home.  I purposely chose a large school with tons of options [...]
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Part 1: Oh, Brother! – He Arrived

By Margaret | Published: September 6, 2012
  My mum miscarriaged twice. And then, one day, it happened.  A new addition to the family?  How very exciting for a little girl that has for so long been the princess of our little castle.  I was just 10.  I was going to be a big sister, wow!             [...]
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Part 2: My 7 Deadly Sins – The History of Sloth

By Margie | Published: August 24, 2012
Start from Part 1: My 7 Deadly Sins – That Gluttonous Girl  This is a story about my friend Sapphire. It’s a secret history because she would never want anyone to know about what she does in the privacy of her bedroom.  I’m her closest friend, so I know that when she has these “sinful [...]
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Ep. 2: Falling Into Real Life – Lifting My Leg Off the Table

By Maya | Published: August 22, 2012
Read Ep. 1: Faling Into Real Life – I Feel Like I don’t Fit In  There are some things in life many of us tend to take for granted.  Like being able to move our limbs in the way that we want to, the ability to take a shower on a daily basis, calling up our [...]
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Part 1: My 7 Deadly Sins – That Gluttonous Girl

By Margie | Published: August 15, 2012
I love food. I’m in my favorite pizza restaurant, where the sweet smell of the wood-fired oven rolls down the alley through the back screen door. About MargieMore Posts (5)
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Relationships: Friends

By Abby | Published: April 7, 2012
  I have two types of friends. I have my friends who make me feel good and I have my friends that make me look good. Let me explain. Well, as you may have figured out by now, High school is a place where everything you do matters. Yes, Mean Girls wasn’t lying. It’s horrible, [...]
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Relationships: Siblings

By Abby | Published: March 6, 2012
  The first thing you must know about me is that I have never had a “normal” relationship with my siblings. There are three of us: 21, 18, and 15. I am the 18 year old, the dreaded middle child. Our childhood relationship eerily resembled that of Full House… Three girls with large personalities that [...]
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Teen Pregnancy

By Abby | Published: December 9, 2011
It’s 2 AM on a school night am I’m wide awake. No it’s not because I pulled an all-nighter for the History test tomorrow; not because I’m finishing my AP Psychology notes due later that day. No. I woke up this morning for the wailing two month old baby in my room. 11 months ago [...]
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Played

By Abby | Published: December 7, 2011
From the moment that we are born, our parents, teachers, babysitters, grandparents, aunts, uncles, all encouraged us to play games. “There’s nothin’ better than a good ol’ game of Chutes and Ladders to cure a rainy day,” Pops would always say, slouched in his brown leather recliner while nursing a steaming cup of peppermint tea. [...]
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