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Things I Read That I Love #110: That Room With The Ashtrays and The Stereo and The Bed Sheet

Topics include Saturday Night Live in the mid-90s, the cannibal cop, “Satanic Ritual Abuse,” abortion, being Korean and American, Tonya Harding and moar!

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Jan 17, 2014

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Things I Read That I Love #109: Do You Think Ocean Would Wear This?

Topics include women on the internet, Lululemon, death at “The Secret”‘s self-help retreat, Fallon Fox, Bev Kearney, “Baby Got Back” and so much more!

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Jan 10, 2014

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Things I Read That I Love #108: Cheap Red Wine And Stacks Of Crisps

Topics include Okinawa, Fraggle Rock, The Crystal Cathedral, a 55-year-old murder case, job hunting, being an elf at Harrod’s and so much more!

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Jan 3, 2014

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Things I Read That I Love #107: Sometimes Evil Is Something We’re All Responsible For

Topics include homeless youth, Alison Janey, the death of Margarey Vojtko, David Foster Wallace, elite public schools, the decline of evangelicalism, Buffy and more!

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Dec 27, 2013

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2013 list

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24 Incredible Personal Essays We Published This Year

We told so many amazing stories this year, we really gave Storytelling Time in kindergarten a run for its money.

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Dec 25, 2013

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Things I Read That I Love

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Things I Read That I Love #106: I’ve Lost Myself Again And I Feel Unsafe

Topics include Christopher Dorner, Six Feet Under, factory farms, Bed-Sty, quicksand, painkiller addiction, Gretchen Molanenen and moar!

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Dec 20, 2013

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Things I Read That I Love #105: The Rainbow, The Stars, The Statue Of The Panda

Topics include Lisa Frank, genetic testing, Blue Star Texas, KidZania, the tragic death of a college freshman, Balthazar, Christopher McCandless Pilgrims and more!

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Dec 13, 2013

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Things I Read That I Love #104: Drinking, Trucks, Girls, Hot Days, and Southern Nights

Topics include Joe Jonas, the Men’s Right movement, a serial killer, cystic fibrosis, teacher/student affair, the South Pole, Florida Georgia Line, sleeping pills, The Khmer Rouge and more!

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Dec 6, 2013

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Things I Read That I Love #103: I Had No Idea What Was True

Topics include Katrina, Catching Fire, Madalyn Murray O’Hair, Silicon Valley, free market propaganda, animals in Hollywood, abortion, the LA riots and more!

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Nov 29, 2013

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