The Facebook Fight That Fractured My Face
Social networking sites are supposed to be a place for friends to connect and chat, right? That’s what I thought until I was the victim of aggression that spilled over from Facebook into real life. One day, I was harmlessly joking around with a friend on Facebook. We were commenting back and forth on his […]
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Smut Page Survivor
Names have been changed. One day I was in school, on my way from math class to lunch, when I saw a group of students hovering quietly over something. Curious, I made my way to the front of the circle so that I could see what was fascinating everybody. As I got closer I realized […]
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I Was Scared but I Wanted Experience
When I was 16, my friends Sasha, Jasmine, and I made a bet over who’d lose her virginity first. We were the last holdouts in our larger group of friends. Several of my friends said they’d been having sex since they were 14, and Kelly proudly said she’d started even younger. I wasn’t sure I […]
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Betrayed by My Father
Some of my first memories, from when I was 7, were hearing my mother and big sister Linda complain about how I got too much attention. They called me “Daddy’s little girl.” I was really happy to be loved by my whole family, but my father’s love was the most precious. Everything was going well […]
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