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83Movie Review: Rachel Getting Married
Addiction is a family disease. It affects not only the addicted person, but every member of his/her family. In "Rachel Getting Married" the heroine's addiction is clearly central to the family's dysfunction,...
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68Interview with a Vamp
The face to launch a thousand ships. Q: Why is a blonde's brain the size of a pea in the morning? A: It swells during the night. Everybody knows a blonde joke. Blondes are supposed to be fun-loving...
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57A Story From My Life, Part 5
I lived on Orange Street in Albany with my brother Louie for the first semester at Albany State University. I didn't live in the dorms. My brother Louie's house was a HUD house. It was in an...
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65A Story of My Life, Part 2
My eldest sister Faye, my eldest brother Jerry, and our brother David stayed at home while Mom, Dad and the rest of the children went on an excursion into the country to visit some other relatives on a...
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61A Story From My Life, Part 3
This is one of the saddest stories I have to write. Once again, it isn't a direct memory of mine from my childhood, but part of the family arcana. It arouses in me the strongest empathy and sympathy for...
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69A Story of My Life, Part 8
I was attending Albany State University, living in my brother Louie's house, with my sister-in-law Hilda and my three-almost-four-year-old niece, Stephanie. I had come home from my first date, only to find...
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66Am I Turning Into My MOTHER?
Am I turning into my mother? Ye gods! The idea makes me shudder! Don't get me wrong--I love my mother in some deep, elemental, imperishable way, but as far as wanting to be her? No. Not. Definitely not....
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65What It Costs To Be Different
When I was growing up, America was very prosperous. We lived in rural area, dotted with successful dairy farms that were well-kept and orderly. I went to a central school; all the grades from kindergarten...
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64But First We Need to Talk
Dating is tough, so imagine trying to establish romantic relationships with a chronic and disfiguring disease.
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68Understand Your Social Needs
Fifth in a series of 100 Hubs for the 100 Hubs in 30 Days Challenge! One of the ugliest patterns in modern life is that admitting any gap in your social needs, admitting loneliness makes you needy and no...
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