If you have a teenage girl in your life -- or if you have ever been a teenage girl -- drop everything you are doing right now and read this excerpt from an amazing personal essay by writer Meghan Harper. Those girls, man. They take all that energy, all that circulating fire in their veins, and instead of letting it destroy them, they choose to love, ferociously. Be it a band, or a book, or a series of films. They do it to keep themselves sane, and yet we mock them for it. Teenage girls find a buoy for themselves in the sea of emotional ruin, and they hold on tighter than anyone else. Read the full text of her post, below. Head over to Harper's awesome blog for more. She seemed much older than the last time I had seen her oh, the passage of time , so I asked her what age she was. But I think she recognized what I was saying on some level.

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The annual MoPOP Pop Conference, first held in , mixes together ambitious music discourse of every kind to bring academics, critics, musicians, and dedicated fans into a collective conversation. There is no pop music without youth, and no youth without pop music. Across multiple generations and eras, "the youth" have been regarded as a troublesome, paradigm-shifting force in both music and politics.
I wish there was a mother's support network for us all to join and meet up. We love each other very much and are each others support system. Now we go out to eat or to watch a play or do something together about once every week or two, which is a nice change compared to once a year. But you can't make her think about the numerous facts that disprove Mormonism. This guy is always busy.