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Love hurts but not as much as me losing at my Bachelor fantasy league

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Dear Reader(s),  Listen, I understand that during a holiday perpetuated by a company that makes folded paper it can be hard to hold back the tears. Hell, I cried three distinct times during Spider-Man: Into  Spider-Verse—and that’s not even a joke. The point is that the next time you hear that smooth, sexy, jazz vibrato of

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Areas of the GTA rated according to my experience playing competitive girls’ hockey in those areas from ages 10 to 16

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I’m from Ottawa (Go Ice Go!), but from ages 10 to 16 I travelled to the GTA fairly often for hockey tournaments.  You can learn a lot about a city, township, or neighbourhood based on the local Atom, Peewee, or Bantam girls’ hockey team, so here are a few of my thoughts on areas of

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I tried to explain what “snow” was to Margaret Atwood and then briefly asked her about The Handmaid’s Tale

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Margaret Atwood is as ubiquitous in Canada as snow. But does she know what it is? L: Hi Margaret, thank you so much for meeting with me for this interview.  M: No problem, I had nothing else to do today.    L: Did you have any trouble finding The Strand’s office?  M: Yes, I had a little bit

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Realistic new year’s resolutions

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We can sit around grasping our iPhone running bands, Martha Stewart cookbooks, and ECOMAN study subscriptions, all while huddling by a digital fire of our own self-delusion reading The Sisterhood of The Traveling Pants, but eventually we’ll all be burned by the reality that these pants indeed do not fit. The reality that it takes a little more than sisterly love and the Spice Girls

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The five worst costumes I saw at Brittany’s Halloween party

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