A friend of mine texted me the other day freaking out because he asked a girl out on a date. He wasn’t sure what they should do and his fear was that he’d find her trying to dip out the bathroom window like the movies. While this is one of the risks of a first date, I do have some…
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HONESTY
I can be honest to a fault. From time to time I accidentally offend someone by pointing out that revving the engine on their “hot rod” doesn’t make girls wanna sleep with them, or that they probably shouldn’t wear light pink when their complexion is practically translucent. But I honestly thought that by telling people these things I was doing…
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TRAVELING ON A BUDGET
If traveling is high on your bucket list, don’t let limited funds stop you. I’ve been traveling frequently since I was 18 (snacking on musubi after surfing in Hawaii where I lived for four months, tanning alongside the Mediterranean Sea in Amalfi, sipping (or downing, depending on the day) Aperol Spritzes along the canals in Amsterdam, hiking to a secluded…
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TEASE
I have a very open family, so when my mom and I talked for a half an hour about past sexual experiences at dinner yesterday, it wasn’t all that out of the ordinary. Call me old fashioned, but I’m not typically someone who will kiss on a first date, let alone have sex with someone. My mom always raised me…
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LIVING THE DREAM
& so are you (well, most of you). flash back to when you were, say, 12 years old. personally, i was probably looking at myself in the mirror, wondering what i’m gonna look like if & when i move past my “ugly phase.” i would dream about the college i would attend, the friends i would make, and what i’d…
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QUICK TRIP TO SUNRIVER, OREGON
My boyfriend took off three days of work to show me central Oregon. While I’ve heard dozens of times to visit Bend, we headed a little further south to Sunriver, where we hiked, biked, swam, pet horses, and ate some delicious food. Here’s what we did to make this three and a half hour drive from Portland an experience I…
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EMBRACING ME
I’ve always hated those people who become carbon copies of their significant other. Who lose their personal identity to become what they think the other person wants them to be. Yet, when I told my boyfriend that he needed to teach me everything about sports, something I don’t have any background in and am not sure I care all that…
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ALIVE
Wow. Looking back at my year so far, I’ve basically been living my dream life. moving to Hawaii, working in Mexico for three weeks, and now staying with my boyfriend in Portland. Yet, while I spent the last seven months of my life surfing, hiking, riding along mountains in the bed of a truck, petting horses during sunset, floating down…
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24 HOURS ON THE OREGON COAST
A GUIDE TO A QUICK GETAWAY IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST While I wouldn’t say that being in a long distance relationship is preferred, I will say that it has some perks. Think: a personal tour guide. With my boyfriend living in Portland, a trip to the coast to camp on a secluded beach, eat some mouthwatering food, watch surfers, hike…
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TRUST AGAIN
I’m in Portland, staying with my very recent boyfriend. Still very fresh in the honeymoon phase, I can’t get enough of him. My limbs are drawn to his, tracing my fingers along the veins that run from fingertips to forearm while we speed down the winding highway or our feet doing a dance under the kitchen table while we hang…
