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Oct 13, 2024

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The Virago

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DJ Squire

How My Mother Taught Me the Value of Being Childfree

History would not be repeated

Sep 15, 2024

How My Mother Taught Me the Value of Being Childfree

Sep 15, 2024

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The Virago

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Suzanna Quintana

The Virago Submission Guidelines

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Glenn Jeffers

On Dealing with Grief Around the Holidays

For you first-timers, a cautionary tale…

Dec 21, 2023

A lone figure dressed in a overcoat and wool cap walks down a snow-covered path on a snowy, winter’s eve. Lost in thought. Lost in grief.

Dec 21, 2023

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Middle-Pause

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Shari Lopatin

What It Means to Be an Unmarried Woman in Her 40s with No Kids

Hint: it’s not random trips to Paris and champagne at the spa

Aug 21, 2023

What It Means to Be an Unmarried Woman in Her 40s with No Kids

Aug 21, 2023

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The Memoirist

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Jacqueline Dooley

Sometimes The Cracks Get Too Big to Hold a Friendship Together

Why I’m letting a 40-year friendship go.

Nov 13, 2023

Sometimes The Cracks Get Too Big to Hold a Friendship Together

Nov 13, 2023

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Heart Affairs

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Carlyn Beccia

I Went to a Bumble IRL Event And Finally Understood Why Modern Dating is a Mess

I interviewed over 50 single people and asked them about their biggest struggles in modern dating. Men and women had very different…

Feb 22, 2024

I Went to a Bumble IRL Event And Finally Understood Why Modern Dating is a Mess

Feb 22, 2024

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Sybarite

by

Adeline Dimond

What We Think About When We Think About Red Lobster

The comfort of chain restaurants

Oct 23, 2023

What We Think About When We Think About Red Lobster

Oct 23, 2023

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Mind Cafe

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Scott H. Young

18 Life Lessons I’d Give My 18-Year-Old Self

Dating success, making friends, money and dealing with assholes…

Oct 7, 2023

18 Life Lessons I’d Give My 18-Year-Old Self

Oct 7, 2023

Richard Gingras

How might we build trust in an untrusting world?

Considering the challenge of polarization in digital societies

Oct 22, 2023

How might we build trust in an untrusting world?

Oct 22, 2023

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Unpopular Opinions

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Teri Nickels' Straight Shot

Can Women Give Men the Wrong Impression Within Platonic Friendships?

Yes. Women can talk too much!

Oct 9, 2023

Can Women Give Men the Wrong Impression Within Platonic Friendships?

Oct 9, 2023

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Human Parts

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Sangeeta Kalsi

It took being in a wheelchair to learn how to ask for help

I still don’t wish a lack of access on anybody

Oct 20, 2023

It took being in a wheelchair to learn how to ask for help

Oct 20, 2023

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The Wind Phone

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Catherine Oceano

Recovering From Years of Trauma and Loss

I think it’s time for me

Oct 13, 2023

A hill rises behind a bay. An industrial complex is on the far shore, in the foreshore is a patch of dry ground and pilings litter the scene. Clouds hover.

Oct 13, 2023

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Elanor R. L.

The Reason Women Aren’t Having Babies that Nobody Wants to Discuss

You’d need to have spent the last decade living under a rock to not have seen at least a little hand-wringing about the current state of…

May 26, 2023

The Reason Women Aren’t Having Babies that Nobody Wants to Discuss

May 26, 2023

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The Belladonna Comedy

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Kelli Huggins

I’m Quitting My Job to Run a Sanitarium for Tubercular Rats

Is there really a market for this? That you even have to ask that shows this is a serious issue that people just aren’t talking about.

Jul 25, 2023

I’m Quitting My Job to Run a Sanitarium for Tubercular Rats

Jul 25, 2023

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