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It starts sometime in elementary or middle school–a romantic or more-than-friendship interest in another human being. And once it starts, it rarely seems to stop. Flirtation. Crushes. First boy/girlfriends. Unrequited obsessions. Dates. Romances. Relationships.  In recent weeks I’ve found myself in a recurring conversation. It started with my sister and best friend. In one of our daily WhatsApp conversations she commented that she’d had X number of relationships in her lifetime and reflected on their…

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I have a confession to make: I don’t watch news. In fact, I would say I generally avoid the news. If you asked me what was going on in the world these days, I would be sorely uninformed. The only news I tend to encounter is what Facebook friends mention or share, and that which shows up in my News Feed.  That is how I came upon this article recently, posted by a girlfriend, about…

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I have always believed that people either have the knack for language, or they don’t. I put myself in that latter or second camp. I took Spanish for three years in high school and could never do much more than ask where the bathroom was located. Don’t get me wrong, that was useful language to know when you found yourself suffering from Montezuma’s revenge; however, it’s not any level of fluency. My inability to speak…

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