It’s A Girl!

Nothing feels quite as invalidating as hearing, “Everything happens for a reason!” — however well-intended — when you’ve just suffered a trauma. And even though I’ve lived long enough to witness that the phrase usually bears true, I could not for the life of me understand why I was not blessed with the ability to…

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“Toughen Up,” They Told Me…

Ever since I can remember, I was told I was too sensitive. As a teenager, I wanted to avoid things that seemed unnecessarily negative, so I refused to watch the 11:00 p.m. news. It just didn’t seem like a good idea for my last thoughts of the day to be about crime, gossip, and political…

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