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I Spent My Last 3 Summers With 2 Women in 1 Art Room (opens the original)
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The title is correct. Your eyes are not broken. I, a teenager, spent most of my last three summers working with two women over 25 years older than me. We worked at a camp for children ages 2-12, and we worked in the art room.Please Fill Out Survey- Takes 1 MinThe First YearThis was three years ago. It’s crazy how quickly time flies. I was just a CIT (counselor in training) back then, and it was a lot of fun. I only worked at the camp for four weeks, out of the seven in total, because for the
End Your Toxic Political Relationship (opens the original)
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Imagine you are dating someone who tells you what you’re allowed to believe, gets angry when you disagree with them, expects you to defend them no matter what they say, makes you hate everyone they hate, and convinces you that everyone not in the relationship is the enemy. That’s toxic; really toxic. You would never want to date someone like that in real life, right? It’d be a disaster.Celebrity Survey - Please Fill Out!So why don’t we recognize and avoid the same behavior when it c
The Last Lovable Celebrity (opens the original)
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Dolly Parton passed away yesterday. She was 80 years old, and this comes a year after her husband’s passing. Dolly Parton had a magical ability to be loved by all Americans. Men and women. Right and left. North and South. Old and young. She was brilliant. Her music was charming, the impact of her charity work cannot be overstated, and she was genuinely a really good human being. But to me, what made Dolly feel so different from almost every other celebrity today is that she never seemed to need
The Internet Has Made Everyone a Critic (opens the original)
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The internet has made all of us “normal people” critics. It doesn’t matter who or what we are talking about, because when a new movie comes out, within hours there are people explaining why it is the best movie of the year, and other people talking about how it is one of the worst pieces of media they have ever seen in their long life. When a celebrity says something controversial, everyone immediately has an opinion on whether they are a bad person or if they are just being misunderstood. Then
You Don’t Have to Do Anything Anymore (opens the original)
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“You don’t want to do it? Okay, that’s fine. You can sit here, or go back to the bunk, or go find a different activity. It’s completely fine.” These were words I heard at summer camp a few years ago, when I didn’t want to participate in the grade-level-wide sports tournament. I’m not a huge fan of sports, so I asked to sit out, and the team captain said it was one-hundred-percent fine, and I could just do whatever I wanted during the sports time. In fact, a lot of things at the camp felt optiona
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