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Stevie Nicks and George R. R. Martin connected by storytelling, personal lives

On Tuesday, Stevie Nicks told the Herald Scotland that she turned to the HBO series “Game of Thrones” to cope with the death of her mother and a nasty bout of pneumonia. She was crippled with grief, and she told the Herald she couldn’t leave her house for nearly five months. In that time period, she immersed herself in George R. R. Martin’s fantasy world of Westeros and wrote poems about the characters — some of the titles “On Jon Snow,” “On Arya” and “On Cersei and Jaime,” she said.


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Vanity: one of the seven deadly sins

I’ve a very dear friend who is weeks away from going under the knife. After meeting with her cosmetic surgeon twice, the two of them decided it would be a reasonably sane idea to perform a tummy tuck on a mother whose body has shed over 50 pounds since her last year of childbearing.


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Pack like a superstar

Congratulations! You’ve made plans for a getaway. Whether it’s out with your friends for a weekend, a 7-day cruise or some time back at home – you’re going to need to pack.


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The fad, history and undying presence of body modification

You've seen them: someone with a hoop in their nose, a name written down their arm, a stud through their lip. I think it’s pretty safe to say that in today’s day and age (especially in a college town like Gainesville) we all know at least one person with a piercing or a tattoo.


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Do you “C.A.R.E”?

Get excited everybody! C.A.R.E is an awesome, semi-new organization (They got started up last year) that I’m going to tell you allllll about! 


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