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Zero Shades of Gray

When I was 14, I was witness to a sexual misconduct scandal. It didn’t involve me and as I sit to write this, I wonder if it’s even my story to tell. I’m also not really sure what I’m hoping to achieve by telling it, but I know that it keeps bothering me. I’d actually all but forgotten about it until I saw a post on Twitter about the Roy Moore bullshit. Some delightful person tweeted something along the lines of “people are forgetting that not all 14-year-old girls are innocent.” Somehow, this idiotic Twitter rando got me to think deeply about shades of gray in sexual misconduct cases. During my freshman year of high school, my chorus teacher got arrested for having a sexual relationship with a student. The girl was 16, also in chorus, and I didn’t know her, but I do remember she was chosen to sing in a trio with our teacher and one other student at one of our concerts. I remember noticing his hand on the small of her back while they sang. It wouldn’t have been noticeable to anyon
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How the HIMYM Finale Could Have Worked Better

Originally posted to TV.com after the "How I Met Your Mother" series finale A few weeks ago, after we watched “Vesuivius,” my boyfriend and I had a debate about whether or not they’d kill the Mother. He thought they were just jerking us around. I firmly believed that the Mother was toast. In the depths of my rage and grief, I had a thought. “The Mother is dead, and Ted is telling his kids the story because he’s about to get with Robin.” My boyfriend shook his head. “No way. That’s the worst thing they could possibly do.” Welp. I’ve been a rabid, obsessed fan of How I Met Your Mother since I discovered it five years ago. Year after year, even after the quality started to decline, I defended the show. That was in large part because, every time I would start to worry about where it all was going, Carter Bays and Craig Thomas would pull out some amazing episode, some phenomenal plot development, and my faith in their storytelling abilities would be restored. T
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