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10 True Beauty Tips From Audrey Hepburn

Here are a few true beauty tips from the inexhaustibly splendid Audrey Hepburn. At least, a bunch of people said they were her words until facts proved otherwise. Consider everything from this point forward her words as discovered around the web but, it turns out, gleaned from others who likely stole them from somebody else. [...]

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When a dad walks away

He left us. It was one of those terrible, awful situations you hear about happening to someone you grew up with and just cringe. No one saw it coming, not our friends, family, certainly not me. Suffice to say I came home from work on Thursday, he told me he was going, and by Sunday [...]

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Street Harassment: Why Don’t Guys Understand It?

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I understand why it is that men tend to be the ones harassing and women the ones subjected to the “flattery” of catcalls. But I do not understand why it is so difficult for most men (and some women) to understand the problem. Awhile ago my husband stayed at a leasing office and got started [...]

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Growing Up Without Health Insurance

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I grew up without health care. My parents did not have money for health insurance, and with their strong opposition to accepting special help from the government, we simply went without health care even during times when we qualified for State programs. My father would tell us children that we believed in “assurance” rather than [...]

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Why I Want My Kids To Be Bored In School

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When I was a young child there was a chart on our freezer. It looked a lot like a Shoots-n-Ladders board and had magnets shaped like cars. The idea was that for each pre-reading or reading step completed the child would get to move a car forward a space. Sadly for the children, there were [...]

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