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The author on lessons learned over the years and across the miles, and her experiences growing up as the daughter of an overseas worker.
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"I want to be strong. I want to be capable. I want to do by myself what two people usually do together."
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Winston Churchill, KG, OM, Dirtbag.
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Sarra Scherb on her family, their Passover seder, and her place in both.
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I still think of economic stability as something that primarily exists for other people, and I don’t know if I'll ever grow out of it.
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As a father of daughters, I'm for treating everyone like my daughter.
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There is this prevalent idea that by knowing our personal histories we can move forward with a clearer picture of ourselves.
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We know and care so little for older women’s thoughts and experiences, their knowing and sharing. But old women, despite everything we’re taught, are worth listening to.
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"I’m always going to love listening to the radio, hoping for good stuff, getting a mixed bag, waiting for my song, the perfect song, to come up next."
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Li Sian Goh on observing and participating in Qing Ming, the Chinese tomb-sweeping festival, with her family in Singapore.
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"Our holiday revolves around the hunt."
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People describe pregnancy to me.
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I’ll cut his hair when I know he’s ready: after he’s bagged his first werewolf, like his grandfathers before him.
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Mary J. Breen on her father's 1950s anti-semitism, and that first indication that one's parents might not be perfect.
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It never really hurts, except when you allow yourself to imagine: what if things had turned out differently?