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" Part of me just wants 'Jane' magazine back, and 'Sassy,' too. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Magazine
Back
Sassy
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" I was born in Korea and left before my first birthday. "
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" By the time you're in your 30s, unless somebody makes the god-awful decision to gift you with a cooking class or salsa lessons, it may have been a while since you learnt something new. "
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" Texting is incredibly anxiety-laden, but I know people who will have a full-blown panic attack if you call them. I'm one of those nightmare humans where the little mailbox has an ellipsis on it because I have 1000 unread emails. So texting is the most immediate yet least anxious of all the incredibly anxious ways that we talk to each other. "
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" Food rules. Little rivals the pleasure of tearing into a glistening burger. "
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" When I was small, I thought I was just cooler than my mom because of how foreign she is. She's really foreign. You'd think it would kill her to get store-bought snacks, she's that foreign. "
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She
" If you are someone's emergency contact - you are their person, and they are your person - there is work involved. "
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" I love my mother a not-normal amount. "
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" Aside from the can, everything about LaCroix is gentle. "
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" I have a lot of respect for people who write a whole book because I've heard it will kill you. "
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" Have passion, yes, but acknowledge that side projects are still work. They shake things up, just like switching up your workout helps you stay one step ahead of your torpid metabolism. They scramble the synapses. "
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Ahead
Passion
" Jockeying for a popularity position has been a valorized teen tradition since the notion of a discrete teen stage of life was invented. "
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Position
Tradition
" Even the coolest jobs get stultifying with repetition, and the only way to break that cycle is to bring another job into the mix. "
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Only
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" There is so much focus on being self-sufficient, and it makes it very difficult to ask for things. I've been crippled by this notion of high-functioning self-sufficiency. And I see it a lot in younger girls. Asking for help brings people closer in a way that I suspected but didn't actually put into practice. "
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See
Way
" I'm definitely an indoor kid who's turned into an inside person. "
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Definitely
Inside
" Manhattan, after eight years here, still reminds me of Hong Kong. There are parts of Chinatown that are the spit and image of streets in Wan Chai, and I am held in thrall by the Chrysler building as much as I was by I.M. Pei's Bank of China Tower. "
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I Am
Streets
Me
" Join a Bikram-flow-yoga, Flywheel, or Pilates class so you can find spiritual oneness amid grunting socialite moms. Do whatever you want. Just, please, for the love of God, stop talking about it. "
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God
Love
Spiritual
" Everyone is such a mystery, yet we chug along so much of the time presuming we're all on the same page. "
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" Nothing beats SoulCycle for dumbing all the way out or re-calibrating a mood in less than an hour, which is reassuring, since I typically wake up in a panic that's candy-coated with a low-grade rage. "
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Boring
Never
" Eventually, I just want to write wavy little short stories. "
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Stories
Short
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" I cannot quantify the physics of friendships and do not know exactly how much intense pressure can be applied before these glittery, brittle bonds break. "
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" 'Avatar' is staggering. It's seismic. Evolutionarily speaking, it is cladogenesis in a thunderclap. "
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" I'm a sucker when it comes to under-explored human potential and 'stuff that makes you be better.' "
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" A fanboy's heart is filled with love, enthusiasm, and insecurity. "
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" SoulCycle feels gross, is gross, and I'm grateful to have found it. "
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" The second single from 'Purpose,' Justin Bieber's fourth studio album, 'Sorry' is an infectious confection - a Dorito for your ears. "
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