Perdida, Loss by Suze Lord
The author supports her teenage daughter through anorexia
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Chemo & Cookies by Mia Singla
A High School Student Squares Up Against Sickness, Sorrow, Pain & Possible Death
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The First Fifty by Natascia Tornetta-Mallin
In the beginning there was Ricky. Stories of his wild abandon preceded him. They used to talk about the time that Ricky jumped from the roof
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Beauty Queens by Cali Haan
East Vancouver, 1987 Ladies and Gentlemen! Mga Binibini at Ginoo! The next contestant —ang susunod na kalahok ay Miss Tisha kumakanta— is...
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Introducing Fat Tom by Dan Hankner
Fat Tom and I have been friends since the beginning of time.
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Mom's Trump Card by Rick Whitaker
I asked my mom why Butch despised me--was it just because I was gay? No, Mom said, there’s more to it than that
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Young Man’s Desire: Memories of Boarding School in the '60s and '70s by Rod Madocks
Girls! Feminine giggles and shadowy shapes in the October dusk. There I was in the quadrangle between the library building and the chapel
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Embarking on a [brief] life of crime by Lawrence Morgan
In the late afternoon on a sunny day in 1966 my ride from Paris dropped me off on the outskirts of Venice
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Making the Grade by Sue Clark
Everyone fancies the coach driver. But it’s me he’s staring at. I notice as soon as I clatter up the metal steps.
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Out of the Picture by Charles Hara
May 3rd, 1971. We're having a party. I’m six years old, and my parents still speak to one another.
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Luxor Boxing Girls by KH Mezek
About a year ago, I had the pleasure of forming the first ever girls boxing club in Luxor. It was somewhat revolutionary, no exaggeration.
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Ninety-One in Dog Years by Wilson Koewing
When I was seven, Mom and I took a drive. There was a peace to life then. Rural South Carolina was a slow place.
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Disaster Parenting by Robert Kerbeck
I wonder how my teenage son, Davis, will remember me after I’m gone. Perhaps it’s a thought in the minds of many parents in these COVID-19 d
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Chicken Gizzards by Alison R. Solomon
The time came for me to learn what every orthodox Jewish girl needs to know about ensuring blood doesn’t get anywhere it shouldn’t
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And Yener Danced With His Radio by Lawrence Morgan
The wind pressed on me from the south, a lodos wind, the Ottoman wind that drives men mad. I wondered if that was what was wrong with me.
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The Name Puzzle by Linda Petrucelli
Mother liked to pretend that my name was a family decision. I was the third child born to Donato and Carmella Petruccelli of Davenport, Iowa
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Herat, 1968 by Lawrence Morgan
My fellow wanderers on the hippie trail have all gone to Goa for Christmas, and I am here alone. Herat is a bleak town in the winter.
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For The Love Of Dogs by Samuel Dodson
Our house was forever alive with animal instinct. We grew up surrounded by a veritable menagerie, some more memorable than others...
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Newspapers, eggs, sausages and milk with splash of love by Heather Gatley
I was brought up to expect to work. As young as thirteen, I was encouraged to take a paper round...
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