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Just three weeks before moving day, I looked around my house — at the furniture, the decor, my kids’ plastic dolls and play sets. I didn’t know how I was going to pack it all. And in fact, I didn’t want to pack or keep a lot of it. Loading…
For Christmas one year, my husband and I bought our then 2-year-old son a Nugget Couch. It was amazing, and more comfortable than our mattress. Wait, was our mattress really that bad? I was pregnant and had thought it needed replacing (after all, it was over 10 years old), but…
In my 30s, I was the only one of my three siblings who wasn’t married or starting a family. At holidays and birthdays, I smiled through it and lead into becoming the cool aunt to my nieces and nephew. On Mother’s Day, however, I began bracing myself.Each year, my mom…
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At 24, I was living the life I thought I wanted. Surrounded by anatomy notes, six cups of coffee, and a stack of certifications and academic achievements, I was in my first year of med school and on my way to becoming a doctor.My life had become a revolving door…
