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Dear Mom, It is 2 a.m. I am sitting up awake in the quiet hell of night, worrying about my sister and wishing you were here. I don’t know…
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Mayor Eric Adams’ budget, rolled out Wednesday, aims to shell out $106.7 billion in taxpayer funds yet still warns…
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My 6-year-old boy died in January. We lost him after a household accident, one likely brought on by a rare cerebral-swelling condition.…
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Growing up as the adopted Korean daughter of white parents in a predominantly white community, I discovered early on that my presence was…
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Dear Therapist,When I married my husband, he had two adult children, and I had none. We both wanted to have a child together, but my husband…
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Sleepovers were mostly a nightmare for me as a child, and I mean that literally: I had nightmares every single time I slept over at a…
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Meet Michael, a 4-year-old who “usually comes to school in jeans and a T-shirt but always goes to the dress-up area as soon as he arrives…
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Snow days felt magical when I was a child—and not just because of the wonder of waking up to a world transformed or the gift of a day…
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Three, I thought,                               or four at the most               to judge                               by all the signs we…
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When I was a child, my lack of siblings was often a source of bewildered concern. Don’t you get lonely? people would ask. Bet you wish you…
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