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Mother is a humble woman. Very, very humble. She toils at a small café one hour distance from our home. She presents food and drink to customers there...more

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...Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable—the saltwater is also tears; the...more

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A few days after we came home from the hospital, I sent a letter to a friend, including a photo of my son and some first impressions of fatherhood. He...more

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From space, astronauts can see people making love as a tiny speck of light. Not light, exactly, but a glow that could be confused for light - a coital...more

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(You do not have to be shamed in my closeness. Family are the people who must never make you feel ashamed.)(You are wrong. Family are the people who m...more

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One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.

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I went to my grandmother, your great-great-grandmother, and asked her to write a letter. She was my mother's mother. Your father's mother's mother's m...more

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Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live life.

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August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly included between it...more