2002, NYC.
Twenty-two-year-old, northern-suburb-of-Chicago girl finds herself single and friendless in the Big City.
Her mother urges her to return home. She refuses.
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“I had it all when I moved to Manhattan,” she says, sniffling. “Enthusiasm, confidence.”
Sadly, months later, she lost it all, becoming a woman she no longer recognized, no longer loved.
“But […]

Pop! Gone. Vanished. No more “Bubbles.”
Twenty-five years young, and the pep from my (more often than not) perky personality has been sucked dry.
Watered down by worries, I’m drowning in quarter-life. Money, men, wrinkles, work. Somebody, please. Throw me a lifesaver!
Back in high school, I unarguably had a bubbly personality. […]

Everyone knows Mike.
He’s that guy you feel so comfortable with…the guy you’ve known “for, like, forever.” The one who gives you goose bumps in 90-degree heat…the one who makes you laugh uncontrollably at something only mildly funny…the one you liked a lot, the one you loved as a friend, the one you realized was…um…
Yep, […]

You know you’re a goner when he accidentally leaves his shirt at your apartment, and you (know it’s wrong and weird…but you) sniff the collar to get a whiff of his intoxicating scent, or when you secretly kiss his picture (that you’ve hidden beneath your bed so he doesn’t […]