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Finsta - do I really hate myself or am I the funniest person alive?
This quote was written in my notes app 3:31 a.m. on January 6, 2021. I literally just, in this moment, realized that was the day of the...
Alexandra Hillenbrand
Oct 25, 2023
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teeth
I was biting into my mozzarella and prosciutto sandwich with immense glee when I felt a sudden shift in the energy of the room. The...
Alexandra Hillenbrand
Sep 27, 2023
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It's Not the End of the World
When I was 11 years old, I thought the world was going to end. When my classmates told me that the Mayan Calendar predicted humanity's...
Alexandra Hillenbrand
Sep 5, 2023
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Sense of Self/ A Self Portrait
During the second semester of my senior year, I took a drawing class. I had always wanted to learn how to draw but, and not for the first...
Alexandra Hillenbrand
Aug 27, 2023
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Cooking is my new Therapy
I'm not usually someone that my family lets cook, and by my family I mean Ryann. We can blame it on the fact that I used to take...
Alexandra Hillenbrand
Aug 13, 2023
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1989
Taylor Swift is releasing 1989 and she's doing it for me - well, for all of us young adult, postgraduate individuals desperate for...
Alexandra Hillenbrand
Aug 11, 2023
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A Tribute to MomMom
In the last few years of my grandmother, Mary Gaspar's, life she told me it was her dream to write a book. She was the queen of telling...
Alexandra Hillenbrand
Aug 6, 2023
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Barbie was Camp (and it made me cry)
(spoilers ahead, you've been warned) I finally saw Barbie, the film adaptation of the plastic, blonde children's doll that defined my...
Alexandra Hillenbrand
Jul 23, 2023
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Today I Fell Off my Paddle board
Today I fell off my paddle board. I wish I could say it was graceful, but that would only qualify as a big fat lie, and I never want to...
Alexandra Hillenbrand
Jul 19, 2023
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