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Single Mama Confessions: Why I Keep My Hair Short

Please, please, please take a second to read my friend Lisette's post in honor of National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. She is so brave and I am incredibly proud to know her!  by Lisette Orellana There are two questions I get asked almost all the time: Why are you still single? Why must you keep cutting your hair? I don’t have an answer to the first question, (although hopefully I … [Continue reading...]

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Raising Awareness Of Domestic Violence

It happens more often than you think. My good friend Alicia has written about domestic violence. My friend Natasha has written about it. So I figured it's time that I talk about it. I have very little experience with physical domestic violence, but I do have experience with the verbal variety. Of being told that I was being a bitch. Or that I wasn't "the queen you think you are." Of being … [Continue reading...]

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