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It may take a village to raise a child, but not every villager needs to be a mom or dad. Some of us just need to be who we are.

- Meghan Daum
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If you must know, my parents came from pretty hardscrabble backgrounds in the southern Midwest. I certainly didn't grow up poor, but I did spend my 20s and early 30s juggling temp jobs and choking on massive student-loan debt.

The truth is that most of your Facebook friends are too busy counting their own 'likes' to pay attention to you for more than a few seconds anyway. Unless you happen to be a kitten who's in love with a baby goat, in which case you should hire a publicist immediately.

For a kid, self-esteem can be as close at hand as a sports victory or a sense of belonging in a peer group. It's a much more complicated and elusive proposition for adults, subject to the responsibilities and vicissitudes of grown-up life.

We use our gadgets for distraction and entertainment. We use them to avoid work while giving the impression that we're actually working hard.

If anything, 'Fifty Shades of Grey' is a generic romance cynically engineered to appeal to the lowest common denominator of female fantasy.

Just as I never liked bumper stickers - even though I do brake for animals, and if I had a kid, she would definitely be an honor student - I don't like the idea of expressing my views through social-media-controlled rainbow-or-anything-else-ification.

I love the essay. It's my favorite genre to work in.

Our culture is so obsessed with the idea that you're going to go through a crisis or some difficult event and come out the other side a changed or improved person, and I just think that if you're honest, that often does not happen, and in fact, it shouldn't happen.

Posting a brag, humble or otherwise, and then waiting for people to respond is the equivalent of having a conversation in which all you do is wait for your turn to speak.

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It may take a village to raise a child, but not every villager needs to be a mom or dad. Some of us just need to be who we are.

It may take a village to raise a child, but not every villager needs to be a mom or dad. Some of us just need to be who we are.

It may take a village to raise a child, but not every villager needs to be a mom or dad. Some of us just need to be who we are.

It may take a village to raise a child, but not every villager needs to be a mom or dad. Some of us just need to be who we are.

It may take a village to raise a child, but not every villager needs to be a mom or dad. Some of us just need to be who we are.

It may take a village to raise a child, but not every villager needs to be a mom or dad. Some of us just need to be who we are.

It may take a village to raise a child, but not every villager needs to be a mom or dad. Some of us just need to be who we are.

It may take a village to raise a child, but not every villager needs to be a mom or dad. Some of us just need to be who we are.

It may take a village to raise a child, but not every villager needs to be a mom or dad. Some of us just need to be who we are.

It may take a village to raise a child, but not every villager needs to be a mom or dad. Some of us just need to be who we are.

It may take a village to raise a child, but not every villager needs to be a mom or dad. Some of us just need to be who we are.

It may take a village to raise a child, but not every villager needs to be a mom or dad. Some of us just need to be who we are.

It may take a village to raise a child, but not every villager needs to be a mom or dad. Some of us just need to be who we are.

It may take a village to raise a child, but not every villager needs to be a mom or dad. Some of us just need to be who we are.

It may take a village to raise a child, but not every villager needs to be a mom or dad. Some of us just need to be who we are.