Right around the time Shannon Hoon died was about the time I stopped paying attention to the radio and popular music. I had no reason to tune in. I became...
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This past week was incredibly memorable. My best friend and I as you all know"Fifi" went to the beach. I wouldn't travel with another person they...
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I was devestated when my father told us we would be moving from Tennessee to South Carolina. I had just completed my sophomore year of high school, and...
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My cousin bought me Hilary Duff's debut album in the fall of 2003 when it came out...this was the beginning of my freshman year of high school...and the song...
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The below video was created by Bob Cesca of the Huffington Post and I will let him describe its creation below. It takes me back to hearing the song almost...
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We sat in her living room, just talking about the random things high shool girls do. I lamented that half of the guys in our class had long flowing locks...
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At the beginning of 1999 I was working for a clothing retail chain – part time for just above minimum wage. I was thirty-four years old and having to...
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Every year since I was 12 or so I've travelled to my Aunt's house to spend a week or two.  In the beginning these trips were a type of extra...
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Have you ever had an experience that you can say without a doubt defined who you were about to become?  An almost precognitive sense of a life path...
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Rent had a powerful impact on my life. I do not have AIDS. I don't know anybody personally who has had AIDS, nor anybody (that I know of) who has had issues...
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By the time I’d been married a year, my husband had completely burned me out on the song “Some Gave All” by Billy Ray Cyrus. It’s a...
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