How to be single
When I became single, I had to carve out some survival rules. I had been in a relationship since I was 18 (and now I was turning 30). I...
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lauramalinauthor
- Nov 10, 2020
- 4 min
Why Guys Dread Commitment?
*this post concludes the stories contained in Love Intuition and Without Reason. Nevertheless, you don’t need to read the posts to get...
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lauramalinauthor
- Nov 3, 2020
- 4 min
Life is Stronger
Last week I talked about my undesired and unexpected pregnancy at 18 on the post My Body, My Rules. After talking to my boyfriend and...
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lauramalinauthor
- Oct 27, 2020
- 3 min
My Body, My Rules
It runs in my family: fertility. Therefore, we have some abortion legends that are still alive. My great-grandmother, who passed when she...
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lauramalinauthor
- Oct 6, 2020
- 6 min
Sisterhood
During the winter break of 2008, I decided to spend my only savings by taking a memorable and cheap trip to Chile with one of my best...
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lauramalinauthor
- Sep 15, 2020
- 6 min
The Coolest Folks
I know we all like to say how cool our parents are – yes, there is a tacit competition in humankind to have the best folks. I really got...
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lauramalinauthor
- Sep 8, 2020
- 5 min
Without Reason
Last week I told you about how I fell in love with a guy I first saw in my dreams – go back and read post “Love Intuition”! This post is...
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lauramalinauthor
- Aug 4, 2020
- 4 min
Forgiveness is Freedom
Do you remember Lex, from last week’s post? The guy who spread around that we had sex in exchange for financing my script? And that led...
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lauramalinauthor
- Jul 21, 2020
- 5 min
My Partner Almost Died
In 1998, after surviving a helicopter crash and going missing for two days in the middle of the Amazon forest, D., my then partner, was...
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lauramalinauthor
- Jul 14, 2020
- 5 min
My Partner Went Missing
On a hot September Monday of 1998, I was climbing the high bridge that ties together the buildings of the State University of Rio de...
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lauramalinauthor
- Jun 30, 2020
- 3 min
Dream Big
Three things you need to know about me. One: I dream big. I dream huge. And I will go the extra mile to make my dreams come true. Two: I...
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lauramalinauthor
- May 26, 2020
- 4 min
Faith or Fate
I was conceived outside of religion lock. My father, descendant of Russian and Romanian Jews; and my mother, the daughter of Catholics,...
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lauramalinauthor
- May 19, 2020
- 3 min
Matriarchy
My daughters will be the fifth generation of higher educated women. I know, we are extremely privileged when so many women are going to...
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lauramalinauthor
- Apr 28, 2020
- 4 min
Less is More
Yesterday I welcomed a new age. All I could think about was how grateful I am for the year that had just ran its course. During my 45th...
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lauramalinauthor
- Apr 21, 2020
- 3 min
Crazy Love
Looking back, the craziest thing I have done for love was to never get married. Craziest, better, healthier. Don’t judge me yet – let me...
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lauramalinauthor
- Apr 7, 2020
- 6 min
Crisis and Opportunity
Once I read a John F. Kennedy quote about crisis that stuck with me. He said: “The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word...
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lauramalinauthor
- Apr 1, 2020
- 4 min
My First Book
I wrote my first book when I was 8 or 9. I can’t really precise the exact date. It was a time travel middle-grade fiction that my...
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lauramalinauthor
- Feb 3, 2020
- 5 min
Immortality
What I remember from cancer, growing up, is that it was a rarer disease. Not something you get from the air, the water, from food or...
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