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" So, college life isn&amp;#039;t easy. You&amp;#039;ve got exams, papers, notes to study, friends to hang out with, a dorm room to keep manageable (in most cases), and a love life to try and maintain. The last one on that list, however, didn&amp;#039;t really work out for me. I dated someone I truly cared about for slightly less than three months. I know that it wasn&amp;#039;t that long of a time and that with summer coming up, several months apart was going to be hard on both of us. I&amp;#039;m going on two study abroad trips and he isn&amp;#039;t an in-state student, but I was ready to try and make things work. I&amp;#039;d thought about traveling down to see him and getting to Skype with him while I&amp;#039;m overseas, but the fact is - he just wasn&amp;#039;t as excited about it. So, things ended last weekend for us, and I was completely devastated. I&amp;#039;ve been broken up with before, so things were definitely a little easier than last time, but it&amp;#039;s always hard because you can&amp;#039;t just stop caring for someone on the spot like that. And k nowing that you are willing to try (despite the issues)... it just basically sucks. So on top of the multitude of other things that bombard your schedule as a college student, I was in tears for the large part of last week. I couldn&amp;#039;t sit through one class, couldn&amp;#039;t get my mind off of the break-up in another, and felt like I couldn&amp;#039;t really talk about it with any of my friends. The fact is, he HAD been my best friend. And he was gone. So, I don&amp;#039;t want it to seem like I ran away from the dorms, which I technically did, but the only thing that I could think of to help was to come home and just be with my parents over the weekend. I packed my stuff (getting a good head start on cleaning out the dorm for summer) and came home. Luckily, it worked. Mom and Dad took me to Charlotte on Sunday for a day at one of the best malls in the country (where I got an awesomely cute deer pillow at Urban Outfitters) and I was able to just get my mind off things. Unfortunately, I don&amp;#039;t know what&amp;#039;s going to happen this week back at school since I&amp;#039;ve gotten comfortable at home again with my family and always-happy-to-see-me pets. I also got to skype with my sister- which was REALLY helpful too. I&amp;#039;ve even got plans to go visit her now over the summer!  I am hopeful that things will just continue to get better. I&amp;#039;ve got a lot of great things to look forward to, and I&amp;#039;ve just recently scheduled a trip to New Jersey to visit my sister and brother-in-law! I&amp;#039;ll be sure to keep you posted though. Wish me luck -Alex "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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