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We Need to Talk About Sex. (opens the original)
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The word alone does something to people.Say it in the right room and half the audience shifts in their seats. Say it in the wrong room and someone’s grandmother starts fanning herself with a church bulletin. We have collectively decided as a society that sex is simultaneously the most interesting thing happening and the thing we are absolutely not supposed to discuss openly. Especially if you are a woman. Especially if you are over forty. Especially if you are me, apparently.I already know what
It's Free to Find Out (opens the original)
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I want to ask you something before we get into this.What is one thing in your life right now that you have already decided is not for you, without ever actually finding out?Sit with that for a second.Not the thing you tried and it did not work. The thing you never tried because you already knew. The business you did not start. The conversation you did not have. The city you never moved to. The life you filed under not for someone like me before you ever gave it a real look.I have been writing th
My Daughter Called Me From Rock Bottom While I Was Already There. What Happened Next Changed Everything. (opens the original)
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I Was Filming a TV Show, Drowning in Legal Bills, and Dating a Stranger. All At Once. (opens the original)
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There’s a version of my story you already know. The Hotel Guy. The one where I said no before we even got upstairs.Funny story. Good story. True story.But here’s the part I never told you.I wasn’t dating to fall in love.I mean, I did fall in love. I met my husband in that season and he is the best thing that has ever happened to me, so let’s be clear, it worked out better than I could have written it myself.But that wasn’t
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