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Mike Ilitch did in fact pay Rosa Parks' rent for years, but it wasn't because she was laid off. She needed a safer place to live after she was assaulted in her own home at the age of 81. He paid her rent from that point onward, for the rest of her life.

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energy

that I have decided to spend

in far more beautiful

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Kate Hao - “In Which Every Poem that I Write Becomes a Poem About My Body”

After my teacher introduced us to this theory, she asked us, “is love a feeling? Or is it a choice?” We were all a bunch of teenagers. Naturally we said it was a feeling. She said that if we clung to that belief, we’d never have a lasting relationship of any sort.

She made us interview a dozen adults who were or had been married and we asked them about their marriages and why it lasted or why it failed. At the end, I asked every single person if love was an emotion or a choice.

Everybody said that it was a choice. It was a conscious commitment. It was something you choose to make work every day with a person who has chosen the same thing. They all said that at one point in their marriage, the “feeling of love” had vanished or faded and they weren’t happy. They said feelings are always changing and you cannot build something that will last on such a shaky foundation.

The married ones said that when things were bad, they chose to open the communication, chose to identify what broke and how to fix it, and chose to recreate something worth falling in love with.

The divorced ones said they chose to walk away.

Ever since that class, since that project, I never looked at relationships the same way. I understood why arranged marriages were successful. I discovered the difference in feelings and commitments. I’ve never gone for the person who makes my heart flutter or my head spin. I’ve chosen the people who were committed to choosing me, dedicated to finding something to adore even on the ugliest days.

26 I move to another country

27 I publish my first novel and stay in Seoul for 6 months

28 the love of my life asks me to marry him

29 I publish my 2nd novel and have a wedding in Rome

30 my mom and I travel to a new country each month

31 I start a business

32 I help my father write his book

33 I become an aunt to my sister's lovely first born

34 I move to Japan for two years with my husband and our dog; you see by then I am over my fear of dogs

35 I publish my first book in a fantasy series and buy my dream home

36 I write a book on my amazing mom

37 my sister and I live in Paris for a few weeks and feel like we are 17

38 my husband says he wants children and I tell him he always knew that I don't

39 I am divorced and publish a tome of heartbreaking poetry

40 and 41 are spent back at home, seeing it in New light

42 through 46 I'm back with my parents but now we call a snowy city home and are thankful and blessed

47 I finally learn how to bake and open a bakery with my mom

48 I meet the second love of my life and he is gorgeous

49 I publish the final book in my fantasy series

50 is when I see the northern lights and go on a cruise to Antarctica

51 my second husband and I adopt two tween twins

52 my house burns down so he and I spend a year in a tiny house while we build our new home

53 is when am fluent in Japanese and publish a poetry collection in Korean

54 I write and direct a TV show with 13 seasons

55 I feel so young and hopeful and alive