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There was this girl I knew has told me this in the middle of conversation we had for context, she’s 23 years old:

I’m not very experienced in love. I don’t understand hookup culture, and I dislike serial dating. I have had bad experiences with LDRs and simply everything social media-related. I may act like a tough cookie, but I really am not.

Are there still people out there who will stand at your doorstep holding flowers and maybe chocolates, nervous and stumbling over their words? Are there still people who write Christmas and birthday cards each year to the people they love? Are there people who will gift their favorite book with annotations to their lover so they can enjoy it too?

I don’t want to be shown off on your Instagram or Facebook page like some meat trophy with a name. I don’t want to remind someone of my birthday or that it’s the day when a loved one passed away. I don’t want to be compared to all the beauty exhibited online.

I want someone to slow down with me and stare up at the sky, watching how the clouds turn into different shapes. Sigh.

What do y’all say?

A man is accused of rape, and it goes to trial. In the US legal system, the prosecutors cannot hide information that may exonerate the defendant, they must share it; however, if the defense has information pointing to the defendant's guilt, it doesn't have to turn it over.

My point: in a system of justice, both sides would want the innocent exonerated, and the guilty punished. In our system, that does not happen. The defense's job is to make sure the defendant gets off no matter his guilt. Helping a guilty man go free may not be as bad as helping an innocent man get punished, but both are affronts to justice.