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Things I Read That I Love #149: A Place To Feed Those Hungry Skin Receptors

Topics include mass shooter psychology, “Let’s Be Cops,” the Tea Party in Lima, an NYC apartment disaster, the Chilean Miners, Chinese restaurant workers and moar!

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Oct 17, 2014

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Things I Read That I Love #148: Surrender Your Heart and Your Money

Topics include the US post office, football, the plane that fell from the sky, racism in Canada, fact-checking, Manhattan and moar!

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Oct 10, 2014

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Things I Read That I Love #147: I Couldn’t Wait To Read Books, Drink Beer, Smoke Pot, Get Laid.

Topics include Tinder, Boy Scouting, sexual assault on college campuses, The Zimmermans, the word “problematic,” Airbnb, Paula Deen and more!

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Oct 3, 2014

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Things I Read That I Love #146: The Fumes Of A Magic Marker

Topics include a lot of stuff about race and also rock star’s wives, making things, Star Trek, this app called Slack, the impact of the California drought and more!

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Sep 26, 2014

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Things I Read That I Love #145: It’s Gradual and Sad, or Wild and Thrashing

Topics include love, full-figured fashion, depression & sobriety, rape of men in the military, debtor’s prison and more!

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Sep 19, 2014

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Things I Read That I Love #144: We Say No Because We Are Grumpy and Have Not Slept Properly

Topics include horror in New Orleans, late ’70s gay life in Kansas, family farming, turning 14 in Cincinnati, Teach for America and more!

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Sep 12, 2014

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Things I Read That I Love #143: What You Fight For, You Love.

Topics include the writing business, clothes & class, memes & misogynoir, Mary Beard, earthquakes, finding a place to be gay and so much more!

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Sep 5, 2014

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Things I Read That I Love #142: Like A Freaky Connie Francis With A Death Wish

Topics include the last true hermit, therapy, Cheryl Strayed, “the future of college,” the death penalty, summer jams and more!

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Aug 29, 2014

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Things I Read That I Love #141: Just Give Me Room To Exist Both In The Shit And Stars

Topics include Hook, The Ivy League, Rachel Kaadzi Ghanash, sex work, crossword puzzles, Gurl.com and moar!

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Aug 22, 2014

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Things I Read That I Love #140: A Girl In Black Eyeliner and High-Top Sneakers

Topics include women in country music, pedophilia, the Estonia ferry sinking, Magnolia, retail scheduling, confessional writing, Ferguson and more.

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Aug 15, 2014

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Things I Read That I Loved #139: We Lean Into Love, Even In The Most Hideous Circumstances

Topics include Mary Karr, YouTube rooms, the ferry Sewol sinking, murder, child abuse, Kara Swisher, Ed Albee and moar!

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Aug 8, 2014

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Things I Read That I Love #138: I Am Perfectly Normal And Fine, I Told Myself

Topics include the new face of hunger, The Olive Garden, CeCe McDonald, college rankings, sitcom cities, Amway, PTSD, “hiking while black” and moar!

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Aug 1, 2014