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When she no longer felt at home in the bustle of New York City, single writer Sarah Z. Wexler up and moved to laid-back Portland, Oregon. In the second chapter of her moving diary (read part one here!), she deals with some inevitable culture shock…and loneliness.

By Sarah Z. Wexler

When I get off the plane at the cute little Portland airport, I'm greeted by my friend Lindsey, who'd made the same move from New York City a year before. She informs me that she's leaving on a 10-day trip starting the next morning. That brings my friend count within a thousand-mile radius to a grand total of zero. She drops me off at my apartment, where I'm greeted by piles of cardboard boxes. I officially enter panic mode. Who picks up and moves 3,000 miles away from friends and family-alone except for her dog-because a city she visited for three days seemed cool? I plunk down on my shrink-wrapped couch and try not to bawl.

Projects always make me feel more in control, so my first order

The three-day date rule doesn't exist anymore.When it comes to outdated courtship decrees, the three-day rule is probably the worst.

By Natasha Burton

So, you go out with a great guy, you both have an amazing time, you're clearly really into each other, but then you're both supposed to wait at least three agonizing days to contact each other again? Isn't the whole point of dating to find someone you dig and then actually get to talk to and hang out with that person?

Makes zero sense to us-and kinda sounds like playing games, which we are so not into.

Well, it seems like we're not alone in thinking this stipulation is beyond lame: According to a recent survey by Match.com, 78 percent of guys and 49 percent of gals typically reach out to the other person within three days or less after a good first date.

What's more, an overwhelming 61 percent of men and women prefer to call after a good first date, while only 14 percent like to text.

We don't know about you, but this info gives us hope for the collective dating community. Or

Dr. Kermit Gosnell is now on trial for the deaths of one female patient and seven newborns.You've most likely heard about the sad, horrible case of the unlicensed abortionist Dr. Kermit Gosnell, whose Philadelphia clinic was exposed last week as a house of horrors. Gosnell and eight of his employees are now on trial for the deaths of one female patient and seven newborns, born alive, only to be immediately murdered by Gosnell. The death penalty is on the table.

By Anna Breslaw

The investigation actually began three years ago as an expose of potential prescription drug abuse, and both pro- and anti-choicers are angry that it wasn't stopped right then, when law enforcement agents were confronted with the grisly sight of the clinic: 47 dead fetuses in a freezer, stray cats and feces everywhere, unclean medical tools. Anti-choice lawmakers like New Jersey's Rep. Chris Smith (R) think that the lack of coverage was skewed on behalf of abortion rights, and are now using the case as representative of the horrors of abortion at large.

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Another reason to not get botox.As I careen toward my 30s, I know that the realities of aging will soon ravage my face. I've considered my options: Age "gracefully" and embrace the sags and wrinkles I am due, invest in whatever face creams Jennifer Aniston uses and hope for the best as I rack up a mean credit card bill, or just get Botox and be done with it.

By Natasha Burton

But there are many problems with Botox, as far as I'm concerned. While needles don't freak me out, needles going INTO MY FACE do. Also, I'm pretty sure that there have to be some really bad side effects to injecting poison into one's body (if you can't eat food from dented cans because of botulism, I can't imagine you're A-okay filling your face with it).

Now, there's another reason not to stun those wrinkles into submission-it might really, really bum you out. Like, forever. According to Cardiff University psychologist Michael Lewis, Botox in certain areas of the face can actually make women depressed.

Lewis studied several Botox patients

Breast implants could soon be coming from your butt fat.Got some junk in the trunk you'd rather have up top? That's not exactly the way a new technique in breast augmentation works, but pioneering plastic surgeons are now indeed grafting fat from other parts of women's bodies and repurposing it as implants.

By Carson Griffith

Thanks to a combo of fat grafting and the usual silicon/salt water implants, doctors are saying augmentation and breast reconstruction can be more natural and more real-boob-looking than ever before.

The procedure, which is already available to interested parties, was discussed by surgeons from South America to France at the first annual Composite Breast Workshop this week in New York.

"This isn't only the future (of breast augmentation), this is the present," Dr. Stafford R. Broumand, MD, who received his medical degree from Yale University and is certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery, told Cosmopolitan.com.

While breast implants combined with fat grafting doesn't last any longer (yep, you still may

Here are some reasons women cheat.A helpful guide from dating expert Renee Lee for every woman-and man-on why ladies go rogue. Does this apply to you?

By Carson Griffith

As far as stereotypes go, a wandering eye and the urge to jump into bed with multiple partners seems to be built into a man's DNA, but when it comes to cheating, the sexes are created more equally than we think. (Cough, Kristen Stewart, cough.) Renee Lee, a relationship expert with a masters in psychology, dishes out five reasons why women cheat.

1. Going Through A Transition

"If it is graduating, turning a certain age, losing a parent or advancing the relationship status, women become introspective," explains Lee. "Even if it is something she wants, such as just getting engaged or graduating, the transition can stir up an array of emotions about where her life is going or where she is in it. The discomfort of change can trigger an impulsive desire to find someone to take her focus off the change and be a diversion for what she is

These are the lies men often tell.When they're hoping to avoid embarrassment in front of their bros, or try to get you into bed, guys can tell some pretty ridiculous lies. (Didn't their mothers tell them that the truth always comes out?!) So, in honor of National Tell a Lie Day (yes, it's actually a thing), we got a few brave men to reveal some of the funnier fibs they've told to save face.

By Natasha Burton

1. "I've never, ever gotten a facial."
"Once a month, I get a facial and a manicure/pedicure," says Justin H. "If my friends will want to do things like brunch, day drink, hike, or play video games on a weekend that coincides with one of my manscaping days, I say I have a meeting. I never go into detail. I've never told this to friends, girlfriends, or my parents."

2. "No, I'm not crying."
"A bunch of us guys were sitting with our girlfriends on 'movie night' watching Ghost," says Jim D. "Normally, all of us manly men would make fun of whatever movie we chose to watch. We were silent this time around. None of us

It looks like a clutch, but it's not!

Rebecca Minkoff really knows how to get the party started. She recently designed four clutches that encase speakers (yes, you read that right), for the brand Stellé Audio Couture.

By Carly Cardellino

Available for $400 each at nordstrom.com, you'd never guess that these chic Rebecca Minkoff for Stellé Audio Couture "Clutches" were actually speakers. Cool, right?

However, there is just one minor downfall: Don't even think about popping your lipgloss right next to the volume button, because girl, there ain't room for anything else in these cool-girl clutches other than the mini music maker.

But, if you usually bring the noise to whatever soiree, bash, par-tay you attend, we assure you this "clutch" is right up your alley. So, we say go for it!

Will you soon be popping and locking to the sounds coming from your purse?