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I was only supposed to be in Portland, Oregon, for four months. Eight years later, though, I’m still here.When I first moved to the city at 22, I knew little to nothing about Portland. Although I’d spent time elsewhere in the Pacific Northwest, I’d never even visited Oregon.I was offered…
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New York or nowhere. It’s a T-shirt and an Instagram, but it was also my personal motto for most of my young life.I was born in the Bronx, got my first post-college apartment in Queens, spent nearly a decade in a fifth-floor walk-up in Manhattan, and brought my first baby…
My husband and I visited Italy for the first time a few years ago on a Disney cruise, kid-free. Italy was so special, I returned home dreaming of returning with my teenagers. It took a few years, but this summer, we booked an Adventures by Disney trip — a highly…
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I spent several summers lazing at home, watching movies with my family, and swinging with abandon at the playground with my friends.Eventually, my mother suggested sending me to an overnight camp. I had never been away from my parents for more than a night, and the camp, about a four-hour…
When choosing a college, I had one requirement: It needed to be close because I wanted to live at home.Many of my peers were applying to schools as far away as possible, shopping for dorm decor, and making plans to catch up over the holidays. I, on the other hand,…
Rape accuser and former employee “Mia” spent a second day under cross-examination at Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex-trafficking trial, explaining for two hours why she repeatedly told the rap tycoon that she loved and admired him.There were many times that “Puff,” as she called him, “used to be my protector,” she…
