Category: Best Girlfriends Ever

An unusual fish chair found in a thrift store goes to a woman who had the image of the chair tattooed on her leg.
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How A Tattoo and a Fellowship of a Quirky Fish Chair Scaled Kindness Among Strangers

This fish chair second-hand store find could only go to one woman It’s the fish chair meant for only one person. Or so, that’s how this fish tale plays out. CBS’ Steve Hartman has another great story that starts with a funky chair someone saw in a second hand store. The story starts in a Facebook group They posted the image on a quirky Facebook page called, “Weird Secondhand Finds That Just Need To Be Shared.” A woman in Syracuse,

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Friends throw surprise bridal shower for woman who had to cancel her wedding.
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Friends Throw Surprise Bridal Shower In Parking Lot For Woman Who Had To Cancel Her Wedding

The surprise bridal shower Sheila Brosnan walked into last week certainly was not the celebration she was planning in Ashburn, Virginia. But then, what is, these days? When Brosnan had to cancel her wedding to Terence Gavin because of the coronavirus lockdown, just about all her wedding dreams seemed to be ruined. Maybe that’s why she didn’t have a clue when Gavin casually suggested they take a Sunday drive. Instead of a car ride, she noticed a bunch of people

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The treasure my ex-boyfriend left behind.
Best Girlfriends Ever, Daryn's Blog, Friendship, Life Lessons Took Me Long Time To Learn

The Treasure My Ex-Boyfriend Left Behind

She wasn’t the gift I was expecting. Not from my boyfriend. A very long ago boyfriend, I should clarify. This is a story about where we get our people. About how ugly can sometimes, Sometimes, Leave behind a treasure. There was so much wrong with this particular relationship. Red flags from the beginning. And yet, I stayed. Stayed for years. I, the columnist who writes about a healthy marriage, raising kids, normalish stuff, I’m so disappointed when I look at

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How lighting candles in a church I don't belong to help me find my way home.
Best Girlfriends Ever, Daryn's Blog, Family, Friendship, Husband's Crazy Frequent Flyer Mile Hobby, Life Lessons Took Me Long Time To Learn, The Hard Stuff, Travel

How Candles In A Church I Don’t Belong To Help Me Find My Way Home

Italy. The answer is Italy. If you caught last week’s column, Dear Reader, you left me stuck on a mountain top in Oman with a husband who was using frequent flyer miles prowess to get us home. “How about Milan?” he piped up as he worked his booking voodoo. He found a beautiful hotel and two first class seats through Dubai into Milan. For pennies, as he’s apt to do. “We can tour the city. We can go to Lake

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What if you already have the tools you need to get through tough times?
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What If You Have All The Tools You Need To Get Through Tough Times?

That was the easiest birthday gift ever. For the woman who has, Well, a lot. And, And, at the same time, Not the life she planned. She planned on spending the rest of her life with her college sweetheart. The one she’d been married to for 30 years. She planned on setting off on a new adventure with him. Empty nest style, as their youngest headed off to college. He planned on getting to know the company secretary. “Finding himself”

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Six best friends from Compton make good on their pact to succeed.
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Best Friends From Compton Make Good On Pact To Succeed

Compton is perhaps not the first place a reporter would think to do a story on six academic superstars. That would be a mistake. A mistake to underestimate the power of girlfriends. Six girls who made a pact in middle school. CBS News reports that if one was going to succeed, they were all going to succeed. In the spirit of, “You, Go, Girlfriend!” check out what these girls have accomplished. Dedicated to each of my girlfriends who has pushed

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Three women prevent a stranger's attempted date rape when they see a man dump a vial of liquid into a woman's drink, they spring into action.
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Three Women Prevent Stranger’s Attempted Date Rape

So much for minding your own business–three Los Angeles women were having none of that as they witnessed what appeared to be the set up for the date rape of a woman they didn’t know. Sonia Ulrich, Marla Saltzer and Monica Kenyon tell KABC were at the Fig Restaurant at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica Friday night when they say they saw a man open a vial and pour it into his date’s drink when she wasn’t looking.

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The Unvarnished Truth About How Many Friends I Have

Friends. I’m studying the new math. Friends Addition. As in, how many friends do you have? There’s that ever-present number you see on Facebook. How many friends to you have there? As if, the majority of those contacts are real friends. And now, I’ve come across this study. It has me thinking friends and numbers. Adding them up. Scientists in Britain are looking at the age you have the most friends. When you are, according to the Aalto and Oxford

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Best Girlfriends Ever, Life Lessons Took Me Long Time To Learn, Overcoming Obstacles, The Hard Stuff

Got The Best Gift; Why I Need To Give It Back

This is a “Thank You” note to my friend, Clare. Clare, who has delivered the best gift this holiday season. A gift for me. A gift for you. Clare, which rhymes with “Share.” Clare who’s life has changed forever. That’s what she’s sharing. And boy, has she shared. Shared with her friends and Facebook community the hugest shock of her life. That routine mammogram, the one she got just because she should, it showed a lump. A lump she hadn’t

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