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Answers to Questions You Didn’t Know You Had
What happened to the film industry and why are people struggling?
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5 Things I Learned That I Can’t Stop Thinking About
Crows hold “funerals” for their dead — gathering silently around a deceased crow not out of grief, but to collectively learn what killed it, essentially running a danger debrief
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5 Historic Photos That Speak Volumes
British Prime Minister Arthur Neville Chamberlain and Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler in Munich before signing the agreement on the transfer of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia to the Third Reich, September 29, 1938.
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“My Mexican dad who said she could stay for one week. It’s been ten years now.”
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“They Just Want to Be Held”: My Life as a Professional Cuddler
I never thought I’d get paid to cuddle strangers. And yet, here I am—27 years old, pursuing a career in a completely unrelated field by day, and offering platonic touch therapy by night. It’s unconventional. It’s intimate. And it’s more emotionally complicated than I expected.
People hear “professional cuddler” and assume the worst. That it’s some sort of thinly veiled sex work. That it’s transactional, or even predatory. But I can say—unequivocally—it’s neither of those things. It’s a job rooted in connection, boundaries, and the simple, aching human need to be held.
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