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I’m 26 now. It took me a little while to wrap my head around the significance of that for me. I feel like I spent much of 25 lamenting what I had yet to accomplish. When I first came to …

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Black Swan

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DISCLOSURE: I wrote this three weeks ago. Barely needed edits… just forgot it was here. *shrugs* Whew. I didn’t know what I was getting into. I think that sums up what I and the main character Nina (Natalie Portman) felt …

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Clock in, Dreams Out

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As another Sunday comes to a close a daunting and yet familiar feeling starts to come over me. I usually don’t think it through this far, but I felt like it was time to resolve it. Usually I just chalk …

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Cave Men and Porn Stars

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I looked in the mirror one day thinking, “what do I have to be proud of as a single young man”? There were plenty of obvious answers to me. I’m an African-American male approaching 25 years without a criminal record, …

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