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Baby, I Won’t Tolerate It!
A “rephotograph” of me running the Disney World Marathon. My mantra is clearly way better than the guy’s behind me. In 2008 I ran the Disney World Marathon. The route wove through the park, beginning...
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Do You Think She’s Pretty?
A woman, feeling insecure, asks her husband if he thinks a girl is pretty. She asks accusingly, her open-too-wide eyes and higher-than-normal voice making it clear that “tell me the truth, I won’t get...
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My Husband and I Are Cranky, Selfish Douchbags
My husband and I have been married for two years and together for ten. What’s our secret? We allow each other to be cranky, selfish douchebags. We don’t share groceries. We each go to Trader Joe’s...
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He Doesn’t Like What He Sees (And I Can’t Blame Him)
The other night as I was heading to bed, my husband, Ryan, said to me, “Cute outfit.” “Thank y…” I started to say. Then, taking a good look at what I was wearing, I stopped. Remember in sixth grade...
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The Non-Date That Nearly Killed Me
Sophomore year I lived off-campus in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Harrisonburg sound familiar? You may know it from Chuck Klosterman’s Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: The chapter “Appetite for Replication”...
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Cleaning House
Ryan and I lived outside of Boston for six years before moving to New York. Our last apartment was in Cambridge, and there was a store down the road we’d frequent for cheap beer. Once on our way there,...
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Twenty Years From Now
Twenty years from now I imagine not much will have changed. Ryan and I will have a bigger place, maybe two dogs, a sleeper sofa. In five years, I can see us having a baby. That baby becomes a toddler....
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What Did You Call Me?
In college when Ryan and I began dating or, rather, non-dating—getting to know each other via email vs. candlelit dinners (more on non-dates here)—we were all White Stripes and cigarettes and Dave...
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He’s Hiding Me from His Followers
Rasika in her role as Creepy Online Groupie Wife My husband, Ryan, loves professional sports. That means most Sundays in the fall and early winter, we watch football. I’m usually half into the games,...
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