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  Monday morning
    WorkSpace

    Monday morning

    July 16, 2012March 30, 2025
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    Monday morning says, it’s work, bitch.

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  • woman giving birth to baby via c section
    Home & Identity | Map Of Emotion

    A New Death

    July 13, 2012March 24, 2023
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    I’m feeling the pain of being born. It’s as painful as I’m told death will be.

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  Digital Kitchen
    Digital World | Pop Culture

    Digital Kitchen

    July 10, 2012March 24, 2023
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    * Also served at Plain Salted.

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  A Home For The Heartless
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    A Home For The Heartless

    July 10, 2012September 17, 2023
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    I was thrown out of the house that I labored to find and turned into a home. There will never be forgiving someone without a heart.

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  Remembering Rehab Chougle
    Map Of Emotion

    Remembering Rehab Chougle

    July 6, 2012July 25, 2025
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    She blogged. She tweeted. That’s how I know her. She liked reading. She liked sharing. Many XXFactored links came from her. She was still a girl. She was almost a woman. She was both. And she was discovering her ideas about womanhood & relationships. She had ambitions like everyone else….

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  Wardrobe of the future
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    Wardrobe of the future

    July 4, 2012March 30, 2025
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    Visualising the wardrobe of the future.

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    Geography

    June 25, 2012December 29, 2025
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    I am tired of telecommuting friendships. I’m tired of meeting people because they’re close to where I am geographically, rather than mentally. Geography should not be a criteria for friendship but unfortunately, it’s the most important one now. I never thought I’d say this but I really miss having an…

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  I’m looking for things that will make my heart bleed
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    I’m looking for things that will make my heart bleed

    June 21, 2012March 2, 2024
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    Unlike everything else, the heart gets hungrier, the more it is fed. No wait, that describes the brain too. Well, my brain and my heart.

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  Love has left the building
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    Love has left the building

    June 20, 2012September 17, 2023
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    Love has left the building.What’s more, it left without paying the rent.Don’t bother chasing though,I know where it went. Off to confuse another lifeAnd mess up someone else’s scoreAnd to shake up things forAnyone who dares think that life is such a bore. And since it is such divine entertainmentMethinks…

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    Endings Are New Beginnings

    June 19, 2012April 14, 2024
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    This is over. I am single again. I don’t wish to say anymore about this right now. I believe I’ve spent as much of my life on this as is humanly possible and fair. I want to get on with the business of the rest of my life. So don’t…

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  • IdeaSmith on The Feels This Week: A Curated Life Is A Considered One: “@Harshaman: What a delightful set of throwbacks it was to receive this comment! First, to the days when one would…”
  • Harshaman on The Feels This Week: A Curated Life Is A Considered One: “Which for me means, looking back at the past with a discerning and curatorial eye I had been thinking about…”
  • Neha Kapoor on Unlikeable Women: It’s Okay To Dislike Her, But Respect Her: “You always have such good book recommendations!”
  • IdeaSmith on A Post-40 Primer On Friendship With Men: Hope & Betrayal: “@Soumya: Thank you for reading and commenting. Yes, I’ve had a good male role model. Unfortunately for me, I’ve encountered…”
  • IdeaSmith on Trusting My Judgement Again: Thanks Meena Kandasamy & The Rookie: “@krist0ph3r: ‘Judgement as mental shorthand’ is a great way to look at it. It’s narrow to think of judgementalism as…”
  • Soumya on A Post-40 Primer On Friendship With Men: Hope & Betrayal: “Hi Ramya, Firstly, my congratulations on a well written post. It didn’t pull its punches. Secondly, it was lovely to…”
  • krist0ph3r on Trusting My Judgement Again: Thanks Meena Kandasamy & The Rookie: “Wow, that was a lot to process and at some point it got too much for me to handle reading.…”
  • IdeaSmith on When Did Reading Become Performance?: “@Sid: Oh god, you’re right.”
  • Sid on When Did Reading Become Performance?: “I think the Poser Reader sentiment also comes from the branding reading as a hobby has had. Successful people say…”
  • Topher on Lit Crush: Gabrielle Zevin ‘s Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow, The Storied Life of A.J.Fikry: “I too struggle greatly with problematic people who make great things. As a child Bill Cosby brought YEARS of joy…”

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