I Don’t Think I’ll Be Able to Win Medium’s New Popularity Contest

Excuse me, Medium’s new guidelines for its Partnership Program. Easy mistake to make.

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No matter what the hardcore masochists say, pain sucks. Chronic pain, in all of its iterations, sucks big, fat, hairy, sweaty, elephantine balls. I understand and recognize this, having grown up with a mother who suffered with chronic pain in multiple forms her entire…