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Happy Birthday, Marilyn

31 May 2011 • Kimberly

"A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left." —Marilyn Monroe Happy birthday to the one and only Marilyn Monroe! The iconic of bombshells, the hourglass of hourglass curves, the coquettes of coquettes who embraced both her sexuality and was ... Read More

Single on Valentine’s Day

12 February 2011 • Kimberly

So we all know the fourteenth of every February has been, nationally (read: corporately) deemed Valentine’s Day, and that I, for some unknown reason, am completely, utterly, and inexplicably in love with the holiday. I shouldn’t be, by societal standards. I’m a single girl. I’m supposed to hate it; ... Read More

$10 Palm Readings on the Boardwalk of Atlantic City

17 August 2010 • Kimberly

magical palm reading illustration

I’m not exactly sure when astrological horoscopes, psychic readings, tarot cards, chakras, and whatever decidedly “exotic,” mystical thing became chic—perhaps around the origination of the hipster generation—but I can [proudly] attest that I’ve always had a particular inclination toward the ... Read More

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