Franziska Pugh

Finding Love In A Hook-Up Culture

You see it yourself – nowadays, teenagers don’t have time to wait out the awkward years of puberty. Instead, they have quick life hacks at their fingertips and use them to change their appearance with make-up, filters and hair tricks.

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Pleasure Chest

We’re still asking each other for validation and assistance to get to know our own bodies. We seek confirmation for the things we like and don’t like and need substantiation for how our bodies react to everyday moments.

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New Opportunities

Moving comes with its own challenge and problems but also the excitement of starting over somewhere new. Creating a new opportunity for you, your loved ones, and your career.

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Permission Slips

When I was young, I would always forge my mom’s signature on everything: on school documents, to attend field trips, at the doctor’s office, everywhere without fail. I suppose I never knew what the impact of it was or why the assumed approval mattered so much.

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Unfolding

There was a time where I felt guilty for stretching. ⁠⁠It seems silly now, but in 2019 I had the intention to “practice being myself.” What that meant was to go to the gym and stretch in front of the treadmill before a run instead of HIDING in a gym bathroom to do so. YES. Hiding.

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Moving West

Exactly four years ago, I moved to the city of Angels. With my best friend, a car full of clothes, and a few snacks, we left the snowy state of Michigan and drove through the country to Los Angeles.

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