I’ve never been afraid to experiment with my hair. It’s been brown, red, auburn, blonde and by horrible mistake jet black. It’s been long, short, permed, straightened, bobbed, shagged, and mulleted. With every experiment that didn’t come out exactly as I had planned I would mutter, “Well, it’ll grow out.” In the seventh grade I [...]
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Just Keep Walking
While hair braiding for the black culture has survived for centuries across Africa it once again gained popularity for African Americans in the 1960’s and 70’s. The advice offered here is not intended for this audience. I’ve never once seen an African American getting their hair braided on a beach. And even if I did [...]
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Ricky was the first boy who ever French kissed me. We were at the Rosemoreland movie theaters and I was 12 years old. In the middle of the movie he put his arm around me and quickly leaned over and stuck his tongue in my mouth. I pulled back, horrified, slapped him across the face [...]
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Oh. My. God!! I am 38 years old and I am a cow. Not in the body conscience sense. Not in the way some women claim, when they’re actually fishing for a compliment. No, I’m dressed head to toe in cheap imitation fur. But it appears that I’m a bit confused; I have horns, a [...]
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A Chicago woman says she was mortified when a high school friend said he had spotted nude photos of her on a Web site. The woman immediately suspected her ex-boyfriend who had taken the photos but promised that he would keep them private. Unfortunately, he had also promised to call if he was going to [...]
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