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  It was supposed to be an ordinary afternoon — the kind every parent assumes will be safe, quiet, and

  For years he brushed it off — a tiny symptom so ordinary that he never imagined it could be

  For years, Daisy had been like family. She started babysitting when she was barely sixteen, shy and soft-spoken but

  The door slammed behind us, and for a moment I couldn’t breathe. My boss — usually collected, almost bored-looking

  Some wounds from childhood don’t show up as scars — they show up as behaviors we can’t explain. When

  There are times in life that are so odd, emotional, or surprising that they seem like they belong in

  In a recent scandal that highlights the issues of fraud, waste, and corruption faced by the Department of Government

  He got a horrible start in life when the hospital where he was born got bombed. From that dark

  We’ve all been there — running late, laundry piling up, and that one “still looks clean” pair of underwear

  Two weeks ago, I assigned my students an essay titled “If I Were a Millionaire.” The class immediately bent