Adolescence

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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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