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A few years ago a roommate abruptly decided to move out to live with her boyfriend, and I ended up spending half a year sharing an apartment with someone I had never met before: an Egyptian girl with very limited English.

She was confused by my appearance and asked me “boy or girl?” It took me a while to understand what she was saying, but eventually she got the point across, and I told her that I was a girl. She seemed unsatisfied, and I explained that I was transgender. Unsurprisingly, she didn’t know the word.

We ended communicating by typing our respective sentences into Google Translate. Unfortunately, whatever the Arabic word for “transgender” is, it wasn’t a word she knew either. Eventually I ended up typing in “I used to be a boy but it made me unhappy so I decided to be a girl.” She stared at it for a moment then asked “You are happy now?” I said yes, and she smiled and looked thoughtful.

A couple hours later she came up to me and said “You and me, we are sisters,” and gave me a hug. “You say you are girl, you are girl.”

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Sui fenomeni osservati in occasione dell'eclisse solare del 6 marzo 1867 - Gaetano Cacciatore - 1867 - via e-rara

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Anne Carson, from The Glass Essay

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who up pushing their boulder

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As an adult I think me and all my friends should all have matching schedules and work like 20 hours a week and also everyone lives within 15 minutes of each other why is that so much to ask

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everyone should have a balanced diet of both good music and music that fucking sucks. it's healthy. get over it.

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- Christine Godden

Leigh and the bird, 1973

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Actually my favorite replacement for both 'kill myself' jokes and jokes about reacting violently to things/people that upset me is "I'm going to end up on the news" like it's versatile, it's vague, it's not going to get me in trouble with any censors or websites that take joke threats seriously, it's family friendly while still getting the point across, what's not to love???

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The first step to getting what you want, is having the courage to get rid of what isn’t best for you.

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Got stuck in a time loop for three months and straight up didn't notice due to the Sisyphean nature of my daily life

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The Yarra Yarra Lakes Nature Reserve is a system of small salt lakes near the town of Carnamah, Western Australia. Once the site of a great river, this landscape has formed due to changes in land and sea level, a drier climate, and infrequent rains. Lakes here will change color throughout the year, turning blue in the winter as they fill with water and pink in the summer as they evaporate and leave behind salt.

-29.689000°, 115.887000°

Source imagery: Planet

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— Nicole Lyons

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Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Dr. and Mrs. J.G. Holland (1858)

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Pop histories of WW2 really shouldn't be allowed to refer to 'the liberal powers of Europe' without including an asterisk the size of Africa every time.

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late summer melancholy is real and it will kill you

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Girl is it September? Omg. how did we let this happen