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In college, I was the girl who would low-key judge people for playing Christmas music the second Thanksgiving was over. It has led people, to believe that…
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Easter makes me… uncomfortable. My anxiety couldn’t possibly be from the time Great-Grandma Kathryn sprayed the lawn with pesticides the day before…
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For the longest the time, I thought my mother didn’t like me very much. Of course, she loved me in the obligatory ways. She fed me, bathed me and read to…
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My family never had the money to buy a Christmas tree—not even a fake one. So, when I was around 10 years old, we brought home a tree that had a lot of…
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Like a lot of Jews on Christmas Day, my family congregated at the movies and Chinese restaurants.It became a time-honored tradition to gather around and…
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What I hear is her voice. In the kitchen. Singing along with Elvis. She pulls cookies from the oven and stirs the chili in the crockpot. "I’ll have a blue…
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Holidays are hard. There, we said it. Often, stress runs high, money runs low, and there are all these expectations of how things should be. You don't…
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A Kansas City native ignores his family's advice and moves to a mostly-white community in a state that he doesn't know much about.The first time I heard…
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It was a crisp, cool evening in the fall of 2004. I stared up at the night sky, smiling at the dazzling city lights of New York that made it one of the…
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