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The Believers

  • Jill Talbot
  • July 1, 2021
Out here, no one knows who we are.
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When Ideals Meet Reality: The Contradictions by Sophie Yanow

  • Amaris Feland Ketcham and Nora Hickey
  • January 27, 2021
You want to live by your ideals, but it’s hard to make them align with reality.
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CA$H 4 GOLD

  • Amy Berhnard
  • November 2, 2017
I will not end up like these woman, I promise myself, left behind and living in some suburb. I will not be anyone’s baby. I will be a real artist instead, a writer.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Daddy Issues

  • Gwen Werner
  • February 26, 2017
What I’m saying is I was a fucking wreck and it’s not my dad’s fault.
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Voices on Addiction: The Only Thing That Has to Change Is Everything

  • Tim Hillegonds
  • December 16, 2016
The word rehab is short for rehabilitate, which means to restore to a former capacity. Like houses, I remember thinking. Demo the kitchen. Tear down the walls.
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The Ever-Present Now

  • Laura Gianino
  • September 16, 2016
Music contextualizes our feelings, clarifies them, gives them new meaning.
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Annie Lennox - A Christmas Cornucopia | Rumpus Music
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My Life with Annie Lennox: A Christmas Cornucopia

  • Abby Higgs
  • July 28, 2016
Perhaps part of what prompted me to get clean and sober was the fact I kept making myself uncomfortable.
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Writers’ Roaring Twenties

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • October 10, 2013
What were/are you doing in your twenties? If you’re F. Scott Fitzgerald or Zadie Smith, you were publishing groundbreaking novels. If you’re Jack London, you were losing teeth from scurvy…
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