Experiences of infertility always have one thing in common: uncertainty. The countless visits to doctors, the months (or years) of planning, the tens of thousands of dollars, never add up to a guarantee. Even under the best of circumstances, there’s only so much about a pregnancy you can plan, and in the midst of a…
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As expected, I only found about 10 emails between us in as many years of Gmail use. The revelation was not in anything I read but in the mere typing of his name—an icy wave of relief splashing me in the face. How good it felt to write his name for no reason, in a…
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Abortion access is being decimated nationwide, and still not all of the Democratic presidential candidates have a plan to fix it. As someone who’s had an abortion, I find that unacceptable. During the 2016 presidential debates, I started the #AskAboutAbortion campaign for this reason—to have a conversation about the different plans candidates proposed to protect…
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“You look just like my dead husband.” The first message I ever sent on a dating app offered a pretty good indication of how unprepared I was to re-enter the dating world. To my credit, the message was honest. To my match’s credit, he handled it well. “lol, I don’t know how to respond to…
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I haven’t been able to stop thinking about Jennifer Lopez‘s new movie Hustlers since the full cast was announced. The comedy, based on this 2015 New York magazine article, centers on a group of strippers who scam their rich, sleazy male clients out of thousands of dollars. That concept and Lopez alone are enough to…
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By now, we’ve all fallen for the romance that Alex Rodriguez and Jennifer Lopez share. They’re clearly into each other like whoa: The duo make their affection for each other public; he works out to her own music; and they even dress alike—a sure sign of coupledom if there is one. (And that’s not mentioning…
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