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How to Host a 50th Birthday Party for Your Dead Husband with Whom you Have a Complicated Relationship
my relationship with my late husband is always going to be complicated which is why I'll never stop celebrating him and everything else that is also…
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Rebecca Woolf
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on celibacy, solo sex and quitting dating because, "why bother."
is dating even worth it? let's discuss.
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Rebecca Woolf
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on burning the dinner... again
or how burning the dinner is never about burning the dinner. and also, Run Lola Run.
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"I am a beautiful thing."
or how I learned to love my forty-something body by posting nudes on the internet
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laura hoenack
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from "pick-me" to misandrist to grown-up
or how I learned to make friends with good men in middle-age.
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Rebecca Woolf
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when the body says no, how do we respond?
especially when other parts of our body are saying yes
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Rebecca Woolf
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Get Free: on Staying, Leaving and What Comes Next
announcing two new virtual writing workshop-communities for women who are considering divorce and recovering their autonomy in the aftermath
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Rebecca Woolf
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when it comes to sex, women are not a monolith
untangling female desire from monogamous heteronormativity
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Rebecca Woolf
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secret and not-so-secret smokers
I see you, mom in the stop and drop line, not giving a fuck and I salute you with a lighter extended out the sunroof. FREEBIRD!
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the loneliness of the long distance driver
(or how traffic is a poet)
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2. the year I became a pendulum
and went back and forth until I stopped
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first love is a haunted house
and this is a ghost story
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