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My aunt used to wish bad things on people. I know how that sounds, but that’s just how she was. If she didn’t like someone, or if she was jealous of them, she could say some really awful things. She’d talk about them getting sick or something bad happening to them, or she’d just say,…
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For the longest time, I couldn’t figure out why people in my family were starting to act differently around me. I knew my aunt talked about people because she talked about everybody, but I didn’t realize what she was doing with me until much later. She had a way of saying something bad about me…
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I’ve been conflicted about whether I want to see the new Spider-Man movie. If you had asked me a month ago, I would have said no without thinking twice. I haven’t really connected with the last few Spider-Man movies. I didn’t think they were horrible, but I also didn’t think they were movies I found…
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We often treat happiness like it’s something we can reach if we work hard enough, make enough money, or get everything in our lives just right. But the more we chase it, the more it seems to slip away. What if that’s because happiness was never meant to be a permanent state, instead it’s something…
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I contacted an old friend. Someone I hadn’t spoken to in many years, but never quite forgot. Sometimes he would appear in my head. I’d wonder how his life had been and if things could have been different between us if we’d met under different circumstances or made different decisions. He replied, and we eventually…
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