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Baller: Why Swipe When You Can Jump? By Laura Kat Young
An hour before my first basketball game in over thirty-six years, my daughter watched me stretch in the living room of our two-bedroom apartment.
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The Gift by Meika Rouda
Our newborn son was naked except for a diaper the size of a gauze pad. Cuddling him against my chest, his tiny translucent body fit snugly between my…
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How to Love Your Mother by Tiffany Chu
“I’m sorry for what I did to you when you were little.”
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A Life Too Short, A Love Eternal by Sherri Jolie Fowler
Photo of Monica by Chelsey Fowler.
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Autism in Translation: A Memoir of Labels, Loss, and Continuity by Jeffrey-Michael Kane
I — The Cure That Would Erase Me
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A House in Foreclosure by Henry J. Weese
“We have one more on our list,” Diane said.
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What We Carry, What We Share by Julie Ryan McGue
I round the busy street corner on Chicago’s near north side and glance shyly toward the seven-story, red brick building commanding an entire city block.
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