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    An Open Letter to All of the Daughters
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    An Open Letter to College Students with Middle-Aged Female Professors
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  • October 1, 2015
    An Open Letter to Recent College Grads Who Are Already Paying Their Own Phone Bills
    by Jenna Barnett
  • September 18, 2015
    An Open Letter to White People in My MFA Program
    by Wyl Villacres
  • September 4, 2015
    An Open Letter to Bands That Invite Audiences to Sing Portions of Their Songs at Live Shows
    by Luke Pohjala
  • August 28, 2015
    An Open Letter to 17-Year-Old Boys Who Just Discovered The Doors
    by Brad Lawrence
  • August 21, 2015
    An Open Letter to My Coworker, Who After Learning I Have a College Degree, Asked, “Why Do You Work Here Then?”

    by Denise Parker
  • August 13, 2015
    An Open Letter to Charlton Heston’s Cold, Dead Hands
    by Rob Curran
  • August 7, 2015
    An Open Letter to the Icelandic Phallological Museum
    by Eliese Colette Goldbach
  • July 31, 2015
    An Open Letter to That Mother at the Park With Those Perfect Daughters
    by Ashley Lefrak
  • July 23, 2015
    An Open Letter to the Fracking Industry
    by Lee Ziesche
  • June 26, 2015
    An Open Letter to Nicole Kidman, Mariah Carey and Julia Roberts’s Circa 1990s Curly Hair
    by Melissa Sweazy
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