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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 1, 20204 min read
Love Intuition
Julien, my male best friend in life, the closest thing to a brother I will ever have – came to visit Rio de Janeiro from Paris. Because...
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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 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
May 5, 20203 min read
Roots
Forrest Gump once said that life is like a box of chocolates. Well, mine is just an empty cardboard box, ready to be filled and moved...
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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 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
Mar 23, 20202 min read
The unbearable lightness of being
This is not the first time in my lifetime that I experience a new universal order of things. It is, most certainly, the biggest shift....
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lauramalinauthor
Feb 3, 20207 min read
Baby Steps
Being a career woman and a single mother has never been easy. I am not talking about how many balls I had to juggle in the air at any...
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