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Watching Me Go
2023-12-05The crayoned picture shows a first-grade boy with shoebox arms, stovepipe legs and tears squirting like melon seeds. The carefully printed caption rea...
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Cyber Step-Mother
2023-12-05I've often felt that "step-parent" is a label we attach to men and women who marry into families where children already exist, for the s...
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We Are Not Alone
2023-12-05After my husband died suddenly from a heart attack on the tennis court, my world crashed around me. My six children were 10, nine, eight, six, three a...
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A Child's Blessing
2023-12-05A couple invited some people to dinner. At the table, the mother turned to her six-year-old daughter and asked her to say the blessing. "I wouldn...
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Jessie's Glove
2023-12-05I do a lot of management training each year for the Circle K Corporation, a national chain of convenience stores. Among the topics we address in our s...
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Hungry for Your Love
2023-12-05It is cold, so bitter cold, on this dark, winter day in 1942. But it is no different from any other day in this Nazi concentration camp. I stand shive...
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The Fortune Cookie Prophecy
2023-12-05I was married three times before I was seven years old.My older brother Gary performed the ceremonies in our basement. Gary was good at entertaining t...
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A Coke and a Smile
2023-12-05I know now that the man who sat with me on the old wooden stairs that hot summer night over thirty-five cars ago was not a tall man. But to a five-yea...
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Robbie's Mission
2023-12-05Every April, my school's eighth-grade class travels to Washington, D.C., for their class trip. It's a long ride from New Jersey, but it's ...
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My Favorite Baseball Card
2023-12-05I had been an avid baseball card collector as a youth, often collecting and selling drink bottles to pay for my packs. I remember sitting on the floor...