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You read the title right. A 23-year-old is just now doing her laundry for the first time. Before I get into the story I just want to say that I do understand how much of a privilege this is. Laundry is such a basic necessity. So one would think, right? Well, I've managed to get [...]
Trigger Warning: This posts discusses suicide. A few years ago I completely gave up. I was at a time in my life where death didn’t scare me. I thought about it often. Then one day came and I went for it. It was different than all the other times. This time it almost worked. I [...]
The title really explains it all. This is going to be a really short storytime post. I can't believe I don’t tell this story as much as I probably should. Years ago my family and I visited Madame Tussauds museum in New York. It was a really fun time. At the time I was 14 [...]
In honor of yesterday being my boyfriend and I’s anniversary, I wanted to tell a funny story about our first time meeting and our first date. So if you didn’t already know, my boyfriend and I met on the infamous dating app called Tinder. We were each others first dating app date so it was [...]
It was November 20, 2009. I’ll never forget that date because that's when The Twilight Saga: New Moon came out. I was never a diehard Twilight fan but 12-year-old me would never turn down a night out with friends. My 2 best girlfriends, Lana, Natasha, and I decided it would be fun to go see [...]
Trigger Warning: This post discusses self-harm. It was Christmas Eve, on a Sunday night. Everything felt off. There was a complete shift in my mood. I knew this wasn't me. While locked in my darkroom I started to panic, but quietly of course. No one could know what I was going through. Just like no [...]
Does anyone else feel like weird things always happen in the mall? The mall can be a recipe for disaster sometimes. There's just so many people all together at once. Anyway, I digress. It was a Saturday afternoon when I decided I needed to buy a new outfit to go out that night. Because we [...]
“Its all in your head.” “Read your bible.” “Snap out of it” “Oh, you’ll be okay!” That’s not even half of the advice I’ve heard throughout dealing with depression. Truth is… nothing you say is going to get rid of my depression. In fact, everything that you were saying was starting to upset me. Everything [...]
Tiani Angela 