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2025-07-07T13:13:01Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Copy link lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. My husband…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Lance Koster, a 61-year-old Pilot instructor, and his wife, Michelle, who moved to Justin, Texas, in 2024.Justin is a small town about 40 minutes north of Fort Worth. According to recent Census data, its population is 6,197.The essay has been edited…
“Love you!” Sean Combs yelled to his family from across a courtroom barrier. “I’m gonna be home soon!”The 17 family members, filling two rows of seats in the lower Manhattan federal courtroom, cheered and clapped. They bent over the wooden benches to embrace each other.”Dream team! Dream team!” they chanted…
I was five months pregnant when my husband and I boarded a plane from Columbus, Ohio, to Rome with two young kids and a third on the way.It was March 2014, and I was feeling nervous but excited. I was fully convinced we were chasing a beautiful, slower-paced life abroad.We…
We were somewhere between a dusty diner’s parking lot and an old ghost town when I started passing my bright list of ideas around the backseat. “Everyone choose something you want to do! Our first act of kindness is coming up!” I gleefully said.My family of five was on what…
My husband has always joked about getting a pool someday, and while that’s a lovely dream, I viewed it as just that.However, during the early days of the pandemic everyone was buying pools of all varieties for at-home entertainment. We were a little late to the (pool) party, but we…
I got married for the first time the day after I turned 18. A year later, my first child was born; I was just 19 years old.The next few years would bring two more children, along with the responsibilities and costs of raising a family in the US. My first…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Sacha Warren from Surrey, England. Warren’s financials have been verified by Business Insider. It has been edited for length and clarity.I bought my house in Epsom, a town outside London, in 2001. It has a huge garden, and I knew I’d…
I was conducting an interview over Zoom recently when my teenage daughter called me twice in a row. Worried that something was wrong, I texted her, “In a meeting, emergency?” to which she replied, “No, just a good table on the side of the road.” This cracked me up and…
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