So I wanted to bang this exvangelical guy and it's about to get worse:
We beat Brock Shamos every day. We beat him with jump ropes we stole from Mr. Randall’s P.E. class
After that, I attended his streams 24/7.
It’s August in Manhattan when we both decide to leave. You accept a job in LA and my boyfriend packs my life in a U-Haul and drives it to our new apartment together in Pittsburgh.
When I toss
You meet him online. That should have been your first red flag. But you are 16 and you know everything. His name is L*, and he’s in his senior year of high school, a two-hour drive away from you. You
Our hypothetical date tomorrow is at a show for the band Tennis. I have never heard of them, but I trust him. I say I will work my magic to get us in.
The Barrington, CT Boston Market offers the creamy richness of all Boston Market feeding centers.
Like Richie’s “Hello,” Adele’s “Hello” is also an ode to longing.
Still though, that’s fucked up.
I agree, I say. It is fucked up.
On our third date, we went shopping for funeral outfits.
I don’t write “I have the libido of a sloth” in my online dating profile. I don’t use my real surname now either.
The only reason I’ve seen Space Jam: A New Legacy so much recently is because I wanted to avoid talking to my wife.
“And then after I came out to my wife, she stumbled across People Can Change,” said the man from Fresno.
Marriage is often thought of as having little to do with eroticism.1
I met my husband while bartending in Oakland. He applied to be the new chef. Tattooed knuckles. Chubby cheeks. Full beard.
My mother had been on a rampage to find me a husband since I started college.
The whole first week after moving into his Brooklyn apartment – our apartment he keeps correcting me – I’m horribly constipated.
Oh, absolutely a mistake to have given the wealthy Protein Bar Daddy my number.
Seventeen days since you spoke your last words to me. They repeat themselves in my mind, I never want to forget them.
We get back together, because of course we do. He is better, now. Therapy helps both of us.
My grandfather drives me up to Sarah Lawrence choking back tears. As soon as he leaves, I cut off my earlocks in the bathroom and change into Outside World clothing.
I saw into the face tattooed on his thigh and thought, I am not afraid.
Going to work after you’ve been on an meth bender in a brothel is not a good idea,
My father locked his children up in a house for years for fear that they would die of pesticides from plants. More than that, we were locked in our rooms with a gate.
The first six months I took hormones I was frumpy and ridiculous looking. I didn’t know anything about makeup or styling
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