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1810Beatrix was raised to by her mother to be afraid of "The Garden ( Read more... )

“I can’t do this anymore ( Read more... )

This is the second half of a story titled Perspective is Everything. My topic was intersubjectivity. You can find the first half written by the awesome penpusher who was my partner for this week's intersection (his topic being shibui):Eve thought she knew everything about her fiancé until she ended up being her fiancé ( Read more... )

            “Did I just hear you correctly? You want me to be your date for the charity event tomorrow night?” Isabella questioned, her eyes clearly showing her astonishment. She was enjoying her weekly lunch with her best friend Ryan, talking about tomorrow night’s event that the third member of their group, Anna, was throwing to raise money for ( Read more... )

Pallywood: A portmanteau of the words Palestinian and Hollywood. It's used to describe by some pro-Israeli media watchdog advocates, among others, to describe alleged "media manipulation, distortion and outright fraud by the Palestinians and other Arabs and it's designed to win the public relations war against Israel ( Read more... )

Let me set the scene: It's 4 AM and I'm in Atlantic City for my bachelorette party. I just spent the night having a fancy Italian dinner (complete with lobster and shrimp ravioli), seeing male strippers with my friends and cousin thus accomplishing one of my bucket list items that I've been wanting to do since I was 12, I danced on stage with a ( Read more... )

For all of her young life, she was bullied mercilessly. It was merely a fact of her life. Her name was Gertrude Ann Miller, daughter of one Patricia Jane and Bobby Joe Miller, the third youngest of eight children, and she was a victim (or statistic as she thought in her mind) of bullying. Never mind that she was the kindest of souls who loved ( Read more... )

5 PM Monday; BathroomOne might scoff at the idea that chairs need support groups. At the very least, his owner sure did. The only reason John even found out about the never before heard about support group was because of the advertisement his owner found in the magazine he was reading. His owner spent a lot of time sitting on him and reading. " ( Read more... )

She used to sit in class and stare at the back of his head and wonder what was going in his mind ( Read more... )

INTERVIEWER: Good afternoon, everyone.  I'm Mira Monkeyston here with MNN Channel 5 News at 5 here today with the descendants of the famous Monkeying family. For those monkeys not in the know, on June 19,1873, the phrase "more fun than a barrel of monkeys" was coined thanks to Morris and Magdalena Monkeying who were the first monkeys to travel with ( Read more... )