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Month: May 2023

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05/25/2023

Dried Eggs and Bloody Underwear

My First Year of Menstruation with a Mother Going Through Menopause

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05/22/2023

My Brother is Toast

Growing Out of My Sibling's Shadow

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05/18/2023

Why Mr. Darcy Has Always Been Black-ish

Jane Austen’s characters reveal commonalities across racial lines

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05/15/2023

Beautiful and Damned

What we lose when we only read F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby

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05/11/2023

The Lost Art of Showing Up

Don't Skip on the Social Salad

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05/08/2023

The Allure of Medievalism

When Secular Life and Religious Practice Were Linked

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05/04/2023

Will You Believe Me?

This doesn't sound like him at all

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05/01/2023

Hyphens, Buckles, Roots, and Wings

Letting Go of Holding it Together

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