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When a woman has an orgasm, her body releases large amounts of the “cuddle hormone” oxytocin, which increases the need for bonding. Men only get a surge of pleasure that’s equal to taking 3 mg of Valium, which is why some women like to cuddle after sex, and men just pass-out. Source

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"Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet." - Bob Marley,

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Keeping it classy #kokomo #sunday #hellagirls

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Vacation times #tbt #comeback #dranks

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…the funny thing about never being asked for anything is that after a while you start to feel like maybe you don’t have anything worth giving.

Lev Grossman, The Magician King (via seefaitheverywhere)

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That was the thing about the world: it wasn’t that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn’t expect.

Lev Grossman, The Magician King (via wordsnquotes)

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Just finished these babies. All I want to do is curl up in a ball and forget how great it was.... </3

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"This isn't how it ends!" Quentin said. "I am the hero of this goddamned story, Ember! Remember? And the hero gets the reward!" "No Quentin," the ram said. "The hero pays the price."

The Magician King

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My new baby! Excited to be hitting the road on these wheels from now on. #gonnagetfit

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I know the cure for everything. Salt water … in one form or another, sweat, tears or the salt sea.

Karen Blixen

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I wouldn't mind going back for a bit. Just to appreciate it from an outsiders point of view.

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Best weekends are spent on boats in the sun. Love this crew <3

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Capturing the Airplanes of St. Maarten’s Maho Beach with @samhorine

To view more photos and videos from Maho Beach, explore the Maho Beach, Sint Maarten location page.

Maho Beach on the Dutch side of the Caribbean country of Sint Maarten has white sand and turquoise waters, but that’s not why visitors flock there. The beach is famous for planes that buzz sunbathers at low altitudes en route to landing at the Princess Juliana International Airport. Arriving aircraft must touch down as close as possible to the beginning of Runway 10 because of its short 2,300-meter (7,500-foot) landing strip.

New York Instagrammer Sam Horine (@samhorine) recently visited Maho Beach while on a layover. “I walked down the airport road for 10 minutes and turned a corner to find a large crowd of people swimming, sunbathing, drinking cheap Carib beers and waiting for the jets to come in,” he says. “I first watched a few smaller island hoppers come in—a plane lands or takes off every 20 minutes or so. Then, a 757 pulled up for take off. People ran over to the short fence separating the beach and the runway and grabbed hold of the chain link. The jet’s engines turned on and it tore down the runway kicking up sand. Hats, sunglasses and other small items flew past me as the jet blasted down the runway for takeoff. It was truly an amazing, and sandy, experience.”

To get a great shot of the planes, Sam has a few tips:

I really liked the perspective of the jets coming in over the beach from the side. It gave a great perspective of how low the planes were and how many people were there.

If you’re shooting from the side, I found it helpful to frame the shot before the plane gets there to figure out exactly when you’ll need to start shooting.

You can also stand on the beach and let the planes come right over you or wade out into the water and eliminate the beach completely—at the right time of day the jets will cast their shadows down on the water.

Don’t underestimate shooting back at the crowd from the beach and catching the planes from behind as they come in above the crowd.

Shoot in burst mode if you can. It’s a matter of seconds between when the plane’s a small speck in the frame to when it’s roaring overhead. I missed a few planes at first because of the speed.

Lastly, I shot in the square crop on my phone so I could make sure I got the entire plane in the frame to post to Instagram.

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happy halloween

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Lekker ski vakantie in het storm. Leuk zeg!

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<3 forever!