At age 14, I had a wonderful epiphany that changed my life: I decided that trying to get a tan was dumb. Before then, I had always passively accepted the idea that I needed a summer tan. I envied my friends whose legs glowed with golden-brown summer health. But unlike my friends, I hated sunbathing. […]
Every now and then someone will convince me to go to a movie. I almost always regret it. Instead of staying home and watching bold, clever shows like Game of Thrones that are written by actual writers, I spend two hours of my life viewing the unoriginal concoction of a
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As a kid I longed to draw things the way they really looked. I was especially fascinated with eyes. But whenever I tried to draw them, penciling in realistic highlights, they never had the natural warmth I wanted to capture. They always had a malicious glare that made them look evil. I could have continued
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