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  • Tolerance, Conflict, and Nonflict

    A lot of conflict can be explained in terms of differing tolerance levels. A disagreement may simply be a matter of one person hitting their limit before another. An example will help: let’s say a couple is fighting because he feels like he always has to clean up her mess around the house. It would…

  • A Hole

    A breakup isn’t just physical separation from a person. It’s cutting off the opportunity to form new memories together, and to refresh old ones. Memories are half of who we are, so when we form a lot of them together we literally become a part of one another. When we stop forming them, it changes…

  • The Top Ten Words That Have Lost Their Innocence

    Remember when we were young? We were fancy, free, and fancy-free. Back then, words meant what they meant. Now that we’re a little older, we’ve lost our innocence. The most innocuous words are now charged with meaning. Here are some such words—words that I can’t hear without giggling, ironically, like a school girl. Erect Facial…

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