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I was in the fifth grade when Frankie died. It was 1971. My whole class planned to attend the funeral, since we knew him. My father...

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“Gina, have you focused on your own life as much as you’ve focused on mine?” The Coach My soon-to-be ex-lover. The Scene The deck of a...

During a root canal a few years ago, my dentist and his assistant were discussing what he viewed as her excessive TV-watching habits....

I grew up fearful. Fearful of a mother whose two forms of communication were silence and rage. Fearful of a father whom I adored but...