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Last year, our family of five moved interstate. We’d been living in Bright in country Victoria, Australia, for four years, and I wanted to move closer to my parents on the Gold Coast in Queensland.The Gold Coast is Australia’s sixth-largest city, home to more than 680,000 residents. Bright, on the…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Christine Romeo, mother of “Love on the Spectrum” star Abbey Romeo. It has been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… Sometimes I look at pictures of my daughter Abbey when she was 3 or 4. She was just so,…

I’ll be straight with you: My house is tiny. Charming, yes, but with two adults, two large dogs, and the hope of a future child, “cozy” had started to feel more like “cramped.”Add in our wonderfully loud, frequently visiting families, and it became clear that my hybrid home-office-second-bedroom wasn’t actually…