I’ve kept the photograph I talk about in this piece on top of my dresser for decades. Every morning I’ve
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On the Verge
My mother encourages me to step over the line between girlhood and womanhood… Tomatoes
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As the oldest of six children, I was my mother’s “second in command.” I folded laundry, dusted and vacuumed, changed
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Happy memories from when I was about ten years old. After School
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When I was growing up, my parents went out on a date together every Friday night. During my younger years,
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This is one of those stories that my mother has told so many times that I feel like I remember
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