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piece of failed relationships pie

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I’ll Have an Order of Failed Relationships: My Piece of the Pie that Crumbles

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  • May 20, 2019

I recognize that it looks really dodgy that after a few posts blasting on nice guys that I just up and went MIA. Probably appeared like I was running away in guilt. Or maybe instead of being like, “That’s right you awful person, RUN!” you were thinking one of those nice guys came back and…

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A Tale: One Time I Intentionally Tried to Date “Nice Guys” and Failed

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  • February 11, 2019

Recently I was relaying to one of my current besties some dating tales of old. This particular tale was of a time that I signed up for dating “nice guys.” Mid-twenties. I allowed some best friends of mine to set me up with one of their single male friends because I had finally tossed my…

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embarrassing flashback

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Flashback: Triggered Memories and Usually Not Good Ones

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  • August 8, 2018

Note: This post stemmed from a prompt flashback to misery.   I’m writing a book and it’s a shitty long look backwards. I mean the writing isn’t shitty, but the looking back certainly is. Memoir seems to be a deliberately-written exploration of a series of miserable flashbacks. Or flashbacks on misery. Flashbacks with misery? Flashback…

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Damsel in a storybook

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The Damsel Plus Other Roles and Ideas in the ‘Happily Ever After’ Narrative

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  • August 3, 2018

I’ve read this in a book. You’ll laugh. It’s the story of a damsel. You’ll know exactly this story as soon as I start simply by the way this story begins. Once upon a time … … in a land [insert some adjective that indicates far, followed by one that suggests foreign and a third…

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Standing after storm

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Reporting My Love Life: Stormy Weather Trajectories of the Last 30 Years

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  • July 27, 2018

NOTE: The following post was based off this writing prompt: write a weather report. This is the first post about misguided romance and my unpredictable, somewhat tragic, and darkly humorous love life. There will be more. For now, you can view the description of my memoir (in-progress) to get a sense of what this is…

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