Author Archives: Alyssa

5 Things I Wish I Could Tell My Daughter About the Future

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Before we get too far, I have to confess that I don’t have a daughter. I’ve always wanted one, but it just never happened. However, there are things I wish girls knew and understood before they started on their future. They’re the things I wish someone would have talked to me about when I was [...]

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If You Could Have a ‘Do Over’, Would You Take It?

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Recently, I’ve spent a lot of time looking back at some of the things that have happened in my life and what’s brought me to where I am today. Not in a depressing way, but looking at everything with more of an open mind and the knowledge I have now that I didn’t have before.

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You Will Never Guess Who I Met While Filling Out an Online Dating Profile

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The anonymity of the Internet does something to the human psyche. It lets you strip away all the worries of acceptance and rejection and get down to the honest, bare-bone truth of yourself. By the time you get to the end, you know what you really are all about and you know which questions you [...]

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