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Sep 21

41 and Childless: Why I’m Still Hitting Snooze On My Biological Clock

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Via XoNecole.com By Tee Elle I scroll through my Facebook news feed admiring the chubby-cheeked faces that my high school classmates post. The happy babies are dressed in toothless grins and two-pieced grownup outfits looking like little men and women. I smile in recognition of the toddlers who are complete miniatures of the people who upload the photos. “Aww look…

Sep 21

The One Thing I Regret Not Doing In My Last Job

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Getty Images By Tee Elle I had a habit of establishing myself as a crucial team-player on the job. It was usually unintentional, though. I liked finding ways to make standard processes easier because extra steps annoyed me and I liked working on different projects to break up the boredom that came with crunching monthly sales figures. But I also…

Dec 18

#SayHerName: Why Kenneka Jenkins Deserves the Same Attention as Natalee Holloway

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Natalee Holloway - Kenneka Jenkins Last week, I stumbled upon an episode of 'The Disappearance of Natalee Holloway.' It was part of a new, six-part documentary that follows David Holloway as he searches for new developments in the disappearance and murder of his daughter, who took a trip to Aruba upon her high school graduation. It’s also a 12-year-old…

Sep 21

Why I No Longer Side-Eye Women Who Wear Braids, Weaves And Wigs

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By Tee Elle “I like your weave.” I was midstride towards the register when the cashier greeted me, not with a “Did you find everything okay?” but with a flippant statement that was based purely on assumption rather than fact: The hair that tickled the middle of my back as lightly as a lover’s hand couldn’t have grown out…