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You have to train a heart to open up

People don’t walk around the world open for love. Sometimes they come to us stiff as a pair of raw denim jeans that we have to wear in till they soften up and start to fit us. Let tanvi tell you about the difference two years can make: I remember the boy from two years […]

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How to Truly be Intimate

Intimacy is such a wonderful thing; there is no single way to define it. It can mean different things to different people, but we can’t deny that the essence of a relationship – no matter what its other factors are – is intimacy. Sex, of course, is one of the most primal ways of being […]

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For all the brave, honest and sensationally temperamental woman

Dear Woman born in our increasingly progressive world, Know that I know you constantly have to deal with incredible pressure and judgment too. Know that I love you, and I understand you, and you aren’t just forgiven, you are admired for being the brave, honest, unapologetically indecisive and sensationally temperamental woman that you are. (You […]

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Why Do I Fall in Love With Places I Haven’t Been Before?

“I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met,” reads a line from one of John Green’s books. I think it resonates with all of us on some level – whether we day dream about becoming a globe trotter, or spin idle fantasies involving majestic sunsets over lakes we’ve never […]

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Why Compassion Isn’t Your Gift To The World

A little over a month ago, at an intimate birthday lunch on a day that was so perfect, we refused to believe anything could possibly go wrong, my friend got a call. A mutual friend had had an accident on the highway, we were told. And then time stood still for an instant, as the […]

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Living With High Frequency Hearing Loss

I can’t hear birdcalls, or the telephone buzzer on the landline. I can’t hear the highest note on piano concerts that are as familiar as the smell of childhood, or the shrill scream in horror movies that can make the hair on your arms stand on end. And truth be told, I don’t miss it. […]

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11 Lies We Tell Boys about being a Man

Gender stereotypes are imposed on children – right from the time they’re toddlers – but pink-is-for-girls-and-blue-is-for-boys can lead to far more damaging generalizations. While we often talk about how women are hurt by gender norms, men suffer too. Still their problems are often discarded as unimportant or irrelevant. In the grand scheme of things, women […]

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10 Things You Need To Learn To Do Alone

There is a mighty large difference between being alone and being lonely. I’m a month away from turning twenty, and, on quiet afternoons such as these, I wonder why I ever felt guilty about liking solitude as much as I do – because, although I’m often alone, I’m never lonely. I really enjoy my own […]

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Why First Loves Are Meant To Make Us Or Break Us

How often do you still think of your first love? More often than I’d like to admit, and more often now than ever before. _____ We were too young when love happened, and too young to understand what it meant when it was over, although it was. First love looked like autumn afternoons. First love […]

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