Meredith R. Allen

Category: growing up

  • now what?

    now what?

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    I have taken my last class. Turned in my last assignment. Set my long-winded college president’s emails as ‘spam.’ Walked across the stage in a cap and gown and my mom’s borrowed pumps. So uh, now what?

  • insert iron maiden pun here

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    Yes, this is a real conversation. No, my hotshot is not a misogynist. No, we don’t use that many emoticons all the time… or ever. Are we even using them properly? Who’s to say. Why did I even use a flamenco dancer? No clue. These are not the important facts, people! Last week I ran…

  • living with peter pan syndrome

    living with peter pan syndrome

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    Peter Pan Syndrome is a real thing, and it afflicts more people than you probably realize. Know a girl who has to set an alarm for 10:30 am? PPS. A guy who calls his mom every time he does laundry? PPS. That twenty-something-year-old who dresses like a twelve-year-old? PPS. Peter Pan Syndrome is the inability…