As a kid, were you ever embarrassingly honest? To the point where you completely mortified your mother? That was totally me. We all know that kids say the darnedest things, when we hear an alarmingly honest comment from anyone under the age of seven, we usually laugh, think it's adorable, or take

I was in love with Marion in that way you fall in love with your best friend. She’d pick me up like a pile of laundry and scrub me clean after every bad breakup, and there were many. She was my rock, she was the one friend I wasn’t embarrassed to introduce to my parents, she was my favorite person

As an Asian American child growing up in an extremely white community, I suffered for years trying to find my place in this world. My mother was always working and barely home when I was growing up, leaving me to my extended family who were emotionally and physically abusive to me for many years. I

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Since I was a teenager, I have pretty much lived out of a suitcase, or at least with the knowledge that I would be somewhere else in six months, or a year. I loved it, to an extent, the idea of exploring and gaining new experiences. During college, due to a flexible quarter system, I spent