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Forced Family Fun a.k.a Family Vacation
Almost every summer for the past ten years my mother, sister, and I have been going to the White Mountains (Santa’s Village). Of course, therefore, our separate nuclear families in various forms have always been a significant part of our trip. This year, the trip has significant meaning to me because this is the last…
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Regretting Leaving Philadelphia
18 years ago I attended my freshman orientation at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. I was thrilled to be starting the new chapter of my life, in what has been my favorite city since a family vacation there when I was 12. Simultaneously, as this major transition in my life, I was told that, among…
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Daring to be Different
This week is my 36 Birthday (I know, I know, I am old). It’s not that this is a “millstone year” (Although if you ask me, every year is monumentous, 364 1/4 more days I have fought this war known as life and won. I am alive to tell you about my war, and its…