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Creative Valentine’s Day Date (or Girl’s) Night Ideas, Because You’re Not Basic
The last things most of us want to think about are the ridiculous pressures and expectations that come with Valentine’s Day. You may feel left out if you don’t have a partner, or you may just not want to participate in a so-called Hallmark holiday.
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Teens Invite Elderly Woman to Hang Out Because She Missed Going Out With Her Friends
Mahri Smith, 18, was out with pals at a casino in Ottawa, Canada, and, like most young women that age, they started taking pictures of each other in the bathroom. Charmed by the kind offer, Mahri started chatting with the woman, who told her how she missed going out with her friends. Mahri added: “It was really nice.
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#Squad Was Fashion’s Favorite Word in 2015
Perhaps no hashtag had a bigger year than #squadgoals, with Instagrammers using it to label everything from group shots with their pals to a table full of Starbucks cups. Taylor Swift and her ever-expanding posse of girlfriends are widely credited with spurring its popularity in 2015. At one point actors (and hilarious social-media presences) Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart even asked Swift: “May we join the squad?” (Her response? “You two are the ULTIMATE Squad Goals.”) Besides besties McKelle
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OG #SquadGoals: From ‘The Golden Girls’ to ‘The Baby-Sitters Club’
2015 was the year of the celebrity Girl Squad. We’ve gawked as Taylor Swift and her gang of supermodels strut in combat lingerie in “Bad Blood,” admired Tavi Gevinson and her precocious and talented group of young feminists, envied Lena Dunham and her real life Girls, and Instagram-stalked Man Repeller Leandra Medine and her #GirlBoss clique. It appears that female friendships — and finding a sisterhood of your own — has never had a stronger or more media-hungry moment, but even before hashtags
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How I Realized I Was The Toxic Friend
I, for one, had internalized so many messages from parents, teachers, TV, and movies about the importance of friendship that I was prone to overthinking it. I had some good friends, but I was still struggling to form those few magical bonds that were supposed to last a lifetime.
