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It is hard to be a woman.  Seriously.  Oh wait?  I was stating the obvious?  My bad.

As women, we know how hard it is.  However, for teenage girls, it seems to be a whole new ballgame.  When I was in high school, and on the cusp of junior sizes, I was a size zero.  Unfortunately, size 3 was as low as it went, and I was doomed to wear children’s clothing.  And have my mom sew my prom dress for our eighth grade prom (which is a stupid idea to begin with).  She ordered me a lovely dress, but when I pushed those spaghetti straps over my shoulders, that dress hit the floor, without touching a curve on the way down.

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I will admit that I get frustrated with the holiday hoopla at times.  There is a lot of prep work that goes into holidays and family traditions.  I almost needed to breathe into a paper bag after realizing all the things I had yet to do (like buy candy!).

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My Grams will frequently lament on those days she has to run errands how she hates to go home to a house that doesn’t smell nice.  By this she means, no good food smells.  I have to agree.  In the dark days of winter, a house does seem warmer when the aroma of a meal on the stove is tantalizing you.  It isn’t that often that her home doesn’t yank at your appetite.  I have merely stepped on her porch and caught a whiff of something that made my stomach growl.

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I never knew what I wanted to be when I grew up. In high school I thought I wanted to be a Fashion Designer, but when this small town girl toured Brooklyn to attend Pratt Institute, my future debut on Project Runway was thwarted by 12-foot iron gates and the fear of being mugged for my faux 80′s leather purse.

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Times are tough. Everyone is looking down to see if they see a shiny copper-colored coin, and it doesn’t even matter if the guy is face-up these days. I’m grateful that the check in the mail really was in the mail, and that no one’s strap broke and let “the girls” loose at the Golden Globes last night. But, I am MOST grateful that I am a 38-year-old Girl Scout. Let me rephrase that. I was grateful…

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