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    • 6 Ratings
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    Getting Punched in my Stupid Fat Face

    AUGUST 13, 2011 4:31PM

    By Joseph Carr


    Topics: high school, lake erie, oh, ashtabula, growing up, family life, fighting, personal essay, nonfiction, memoir, comedy, open call, mortifying disclosures

    • Editor's Pick
    • 9 Ratings
    • 5991 Views
    • 14 Comments
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    I'm A Freaky Chocolate Eater

    JUNE 28, 2011 9:57AM

    By bonnie bernstein


    Topics: christmas, three musketeers, single, singles, divorce, divorced, nora ephron, when harry met sally, katz's deli, eating disorder, food disorder, freaky eaters, weight watchers, migraines, breast pain, nestle's, sex, godiva, champagne truffle, when harry met sally, katz's deli, orgasm, hot guy, election night, pepperidge farm cake, smoker, cigarette, grandmother, yodels, mr. rogers, rocky road, breast cancer, milky way, forties, divorced, bonbon, vena cava, washington post, mounds, heart, marshmallow santa, russell stover, lover, women, ice cream, chocolate, freaky eaters, twitter, facebook, bonnie bernstein, open call, mortifying disclosures, my tiny hypocrisy, heartwarming holiday stories, holidays, gossip, health, wind, bad weather, storm, thunder, eating disorder, food/drink

    • Editor's Pick
    • 56 Ratings
    • 2880 Views
    • 75 Comments
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    Cherished Handwritten Notes

    JUNE 17, 2011 1:12PM

    By Monsieur Chariot


    Topics: open+call, comedy, humor, the chariot foundation at shush castle, chariot institute, letter writing, handwriting, handwritten, handwritten notes, calligraphy, gentleman, mortifying disclosures, style, wealth, relationships, fiction, feminism, fashion, love, paris, parisian, mental illness, victorian era, pressed flowers, tt, romance

    • Editor's Pick
    • 9 Ratings
    • 1057 Views
    • 9 Comments
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    I wasn't artsy, I just didn't have the money not to be

    JUNE 8, 2011 5:29PM

    By Lizz Schumer


    Topics: open+call, feminism, kids, style, fashion, childhood, mortifying disclosures

    • Editor's Pick
    • 5 Ratings
    • 1481 Views
    • 12 Comments
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    The Mortified Arizona Sunbather

    MAY 31, 2011 1:35AM

    By Linda Pressman


    Topics: bathing suits, arizona, sunbathing, open+call, fashion, mortifying disclosures

    • Editor's Pick
    • 4 Ratings
    • 770 Views
    • 5 Comments
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    My brush with grandma homicide

    MAY 27, 2011 1:07AM

    By thenutmeat


    Topics: mortifying disclosures, open call, pedestrians, seattle, crosswalks

    • Editor's Pick
    • 16 Ratings
    • 2920 Views
    • 15 Comments
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    Butt of Silence

    MAY 25, 2011 10:31AM

    By Ernesto Tinajero


    Topics: travel, mortifying disclosures

    • Editor's Pick
    • 4 Ratings
    • 3413 Views
    • 12 Comments
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    I Snuck Someone Into West Point

    MAY 25, 2011 3:13AM

    By bonnie bernstein


    Topics: open call, mortifying disclosures, bonnie bernstein, terrorist, chocolate, flirt, spanish, west point, bullet proof vest, avon, united states military academy, thayer gate, 1979 chevy caprice, general douglas macarthur, cadet chapel, memorial day, museum, hudson valley, security, guards, 911, tour guide, hockey, stumbleupon, facebook, twitter, new york city, nyc, divorce, nanny, thayer hotel, football, stepford, michie stadium, military, my tiny hypocrisy, open call, mount saint mary college, afghanistan, iraq

    • Editor's Pick
    • 17 Ratings
    • 1791 Views
    • 15 Comments
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    Saved By Soaps

    MAY 25, 2011 2:51AM

    By Mimetalker


    Topics: gossip alternative, family, mortifying disclosures, open call, saved by pop culture

    • Editor's Pick
    • 19 Ratings
    • 2204 Views
    • 26 Comments
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    My (Potentially) Life Altering Party Foul

    MAY 25, 2011 11:18AM

    By Beth Ingalls


    Topics: mortifying disclosures, open call

    • Editor's Pick
    • 13 Ratings
    • 6555 Views
    • 19 Comments
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    My Rhodes to Nowhere: A Mortifying Adventure (and a Recipe)

    MAY 22, 2011 7:46PM

    By Felicia Lee


    Topics: pie recipe, banoffee pie, rhodes scholarship, stanford, food/wine, mortifying disclosures, open call

    • Editor's Pick
    • 10 Ratings
    • 1171 Views
    • 20 Comments
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    Car of Shame

    MAY 19, 2011 2:42AM

    By Linda Pressman


    Topics: mortifying disclosures, cars, pinto, cougar, open+call

    • Editor's Pick
    • 6 Ratings
    • 2094 Views
    • 9 Comments
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    Taxi and the Real Me Collide

    MAY 18, 2011 10:57AM

    By Beth Dugan


    Topics: health, mortifying disclosures

    • Editor's Pick
    • 16 Ratings
    • 1723 Views
    • 23 Comments
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    Horse Faced

    MAY 12, 2011 2:47PM

    By Nicole Alexander


    Topics: open call, mortifying disclosures

    • Editor's Pick
    • 2 Ratings
    • 1455 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    My Disastrous Career as a Joe Walsh Dancer

    MAY 11, 2011 12:54PM

    By Sarah Fister Gale


    Topics: open call, mortifying disclosures, joe walsh, dance

    • Editor's Pick
    • 12 Ratings
    • 5341 Views
    • 16 Comments
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    I Sleep On The Floor

    MAY 11, 2011 12:02AM

    By bonnie bernstein


    Topics: mother, baby boomer, unemployed, airbed, milf, bed, divorce, sleeping on the floor, maria shriver, arnold schwarzenegger, john batchelor, terminated, airbed, economy, divorce, bed, divorce, six foot long skunk, economy, unemployed, hudson valley, milf, rip van winkle, insomnia, mother, open call, economy, sleeping on the floor, mortifying disclosures, bed bath and beyond, sisters of the shithood, bonnie bernstein, terminated

    • Editor's Pick
    • 15 Ratings
    • 1748 Views
    • 35 Comments
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    My First Mortifying Marriage

    MAY 8, 2011 12:58AM

    By Linda Pressman


    Topics: mortifying disclosures, sex, marriage counseling

    • Editor's Pick
    • 10 Ratings
    • 1443 Views
    • 22 Comments
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    Secular Prayers

    MAY 8, 2011 12:16AM

    By takingadvice


    Topics: open call, mortifying disclosures, religion, politics, school, education, separation of church and state, prayer, morality

    • Editor's Pick
    • 50 Ratings
    • 2805 Views
    • 60 Comments
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    Mortified By Dan Rather

    MAY 6, 2011 12:51PM

    By Sally Swift


    Topics: we unloaded on osama bin laden, democrats wingnuts and me oh my, media, politics, true story, i wonder if he kept the shoes, don't ever make me even say that word again, mortifying disclosures

    • Editor's Pick
    • 10 Ratings
    • 2446 Views
    • 21 Comments
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    A Close Approximation of an Almost True Fact

    MAY 5, 2011 8:28AM

    By Kate Geiselman


    Topics: open call, mortifying disclosures, teaching, writing, osama bin laden, social networking, plagiarism, ethics, martin luther king, jr., mark twain, quotations

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