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Some folks are built like this
Some folks are built like that
But the way I’m built
Now, don’t you call me fat ‘Cause I’m-a built for comfort
I ain’t a-built for speed
But I got ev’rything
A-that a good girl need

— Built For Comfort by Willie Dixon
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The social experience that most reliably predicted whether an HIV-positive gay man would die quickly, Cole found, was whether or not he was in the closet. Closeted men infected with HIV died an average of two to three years earlier than out men. When Cole dosed AIDS-infected white blood cells with norepinephrine, a stress hormone, the virus replicated itself three to ten times faster than it did in non-dosed cells.

— The Science of Loneliness: How Isolation Can Kill You | New Republic
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Castagno. Detail from Queen Tomyris, 15th Century.

Tomyris was a Queen who reigned over the Massagetae, a pastoral-nomadic Iranic people of Central Asia, East of the Caspian Sea, in approximately 530 BC. It is recorded that she defeated and killed the Persian emperor Cyrus the Great during his invasion and attempted conquest of her country.
Cyrus was killed and Tomyris had his corpse beheaded and then crucified, and shoved his head into a wineskin filled with human blood. She was reportedly quoted as saying, “I warned you that I would quench your thirst for blood, and so I shall”.
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howdoiputthisgently:

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johnholm:

Ocean’s door
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humansofnewyork:

“Don’t look to other people for validation. Your birth was your validation.”
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humansofnewyork:

“I’m trying to stay in the present and not worry so much about the future.”“What specifically about the future do you worry about?”“You know, things, like… am I going to be alone?”
(San Francisco, CA)
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humansofnewyork:

An article I wrote for my good friends at Bettery Magazine detailing my experience in Iran, and the admitted absurdity of my initial expectations: http://bit.ly/14kLP9G
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