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Winona Ryder Breaking Silence in a Tough World
As many fans wait for the 5th and final season of Stranger Things, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is smashing the box office. Winona Ryder is back in the spotlight, but she has never been silent. She impacted Generation X with important lessons about metal health and early adulthood with movies like Girl Interrupted and Reality Bites. This…
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Fem Friday’s Heather Lost Her Dad and Found Truths
Today’s Fem Friday is by reader request. The reader was also a subject of one the Fem Friday features and has appeared in other stories we have told. Today is a conversation with my dear friend, Heather. Heather was a teenager and Madonna fan who found herself homeless in a Mall when we met. Her…
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Thanks for the tour through the bittersweet… Obviously, for everyone that trip back is going to be different even though…
Wow, this article is so well-written! I really enjoyed how you highlighted Tina’s race as a factor that prevented her…