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    Springtime in Chemo and Elsewhere

    APRIL 22, 2012 6:13PM

    By cancerdancer


    Topics: walter wangerin, billy collins, cancer, chemotherapy, chanticleer, friendship, honesty

    • Editor's Pick
    • 10 Ratings
    • 2347 Views
    • 12 Comments
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    My Hunger Games

    APRIL 5, 2012 8:18AM

    By Julie White


    Topics: food, hunger, mothers, love, celiac, cancer, friendship, gifts

    • Editor's Pick
    • 65 Ratings
    • 1932 Views
    • 68 Comments
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    The Anger Games

    MARCH 21, 2012 8:49AM

    By Bellwether Vance


    Topics: southern life, ice ice baby, anger, friendship, hair pulling

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    • 9 Ratings
    • 2125 Views
    • 17 Comments
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    The Almost Child

    JANUARY 24, 2012 2:22PM

    By Lesley Clark


    Topics: cancer, death, dying, doctors, kids, love, life, happiness, sadness, children, female, ovaries, cyst, illness, sickness, childbirth, friendship

    • Editor's Pick
    • 8 Ratings
    • 1796 Views
    • 12 Comments
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    Survival is a State of Mind

    OCTOBER 10, 2011 6:38PM

    By Stephanie Russell-Kraft


    Topics: friendship, melanoma, health, true story

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    • 30 Ratings
    • 2358 Views
    • 46 Comments
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    Hoarders

    SEPTEMBER 29, 2011 4:59PM

    By Erica K


    Topics: rosh hashanah, loss, friendship, loneliness, hurricane, animal hoarders, hoarders

    • Editor's Pick
    • 17 Ratings
    • 1989 Views
    • 19 Comments
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    Sex and the First Year Student

    SEPTEMBER 21, 2011 8:00PM

    By Maureen J Andrade


    Topics: friendship, unplanned pregnancy, birth control, sex, freshman orientation, open call

    • Editor's Pick
    • 24 Ratings
    • 1246 Views
    • 22 Comments
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    The Un-Friend

    SEPTEMBER 20, 2011 3:53PM

    By Beth PH


    Topics: friend, friendship, judgment, empathy, relationships. lesson, facebook

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    • 8 Ratings
    • 3020 Views
    • 23 Comments
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    Motherhood is a lonely land

    AUGUST 8, 2011 1:33PM

    By Alex Cartwright


    Topics: identity issues, motherhood, pregnancy, friendship, family

    • Editor's Pick
    • 7 Ratings
    • 1240 Views
    • 12 Comments
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    When a 10,000-Watt Personality Dies

    JULY 29, 2011 4:09PM

    By Sue Montgomery


    Topics: friendship, alcohol, celebration/mourning

    • Editor's Pick
    • 18 Ratings
    • 1413 Views
    • 21 Comments
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    Grace

    JULY 21, 2011 4:27PM

    By bnzoot


    Topics: colleage, episcopal church, carmina burana, church, christianity, julian, science, medical, feeding tube, ventilator, muscular dystrophy, faith, grace, friend, friendship, health, belief/religion

    • Editor's Pick
    • 4 Ratings
    • 401 Views
    • 4 Comments
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    Waiting with a Friend

    JULY 17, 2011 7:14PM

    By Mel Jones


    Topics: friendship, dying, death, family

    • Editor's Pick
    • 9 Ratings
    • 1339 Views
    • 13 Comments
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    The People You Meet While Working in a Nursing Home

    APRIL 28, 2011 1:29AM

    By Hayley Rose


    Topics: life lessons, random acts of kindness, the people you meet, friendship, inspirational, healing, mortifying disclosures

    • Editor's Pick
    • 12 Ratings
    • 1478 Views
    • 11 Comments
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    Madame Jocelyn

    APRIL 24, 2011 9:15PM

    By Paul Fornale


    Topics: growing, loss, colleagues, friendship, teachers

    • Editor's Pick
    • 4 Ratings
    • 892 Views
    • 6 Comments
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    You'll Never Walk Alone

    APRIL 2, 2011 10:15AM

    By Erica K


    Topics: opera, friendship, courage, love, mother/daughter bonds

    • Editor's Pick
    • 38 Ratings
    • 2366 Views
    • 39 Comments
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    Boy Needs Friend

    MARCH 25, 2011 9:36AM

    By divorcedpauline


    Topics: special needs children, adhd, anxiety, therapy, social skills, parent-teacher conference, school, boys, friendship, niobe way

    • Editor's Pick
    • 12 Ratings
    • 1252 Views
    • 13 Comments
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    Billy and Me. New Year's Eve - 1959

    DECEMBER 29, 2010 2:53PM

    By toritto


    Topics: boardwalk, youth, dreams, bay streets, brooklyn, coney island, new year's eve, friendship, family

    • Editor's Pick
    • 8 Ratings
    • 659 Views
    • 13 Comments
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    Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves

    NOVEMBER 23, 2010 7:18PM

    By Raymond Roske


    Topics: rats, smokes, friendship, carnival, childhood, memoir

    • Editor's Pick
    • 19 Ratings
    • 1252 Views
    • 19 Comments
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    Permission to Panic

    SEPTEMBER 19, 2010 4:46PM

    By Colony of Losers


    Topics: colony of losers, anxiety, depression, friendship, family, love, weddings, the godfather opening scene poetry, family, community

    • Editor's Pick
    • 48 Ratings
    • 1546 Views
    • 56 Comments
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    Summer Blonde

    JULY 19, 2010 1:23AM

    By ladyslipper


    Topics: the doors, not to touch the earth, 1968, childhood summers, growing up in the suburbs, open call, friendship, poem, poetry, summer school, loss of innocence, end of childhood

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