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lauramalinauthor
Jan 7, 20213 min read
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, 20204 min read
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, 20204 min read
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, 20203 min read
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, 20206 min read
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, 20206 min read
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, 20205 min read
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, 20204 min read
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, 20205 min read
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, 20205 min read
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, 20203 min read
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, 20204 min read
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, 20203 min read
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, 20204 min read
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, 20203 min read
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, 20206 min read
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, 20204 min read
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, 20205 min read
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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