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    Can Do No More

    FEBRUARY 17, 2012 9:36AM

    By Kristina Lakes


    Topics: motherhood, family, illness, work, employment, femla

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    • 41 Ratings
    • 1467 Views
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    Grace

    FEBRUARY 11, 2012 8:01PM

    By Amy A


    Topics: dementia, death, illness, aging, grief, optimism, hope, grace, love, family, vascular dementia, frog in soup

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    • 2125 Views
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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

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    • 893 Views
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    30 Hours of Sleep, or, The Fantasy of Escape

    DECEMBER 14, 2011 5:29PM

    By Rachel Kramer Bussel


    Topics: sleep, sleeping, fantasy, escape, escapism, rachel kramer bussel, illness

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    • 4 Ratings
    • 1427 Views
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    Two Mothers in the NICU

    SEPTEMBER 18, 2011 9:55AM

    By Kristina Lakes


    Topics: adoption, family, motherhood, infertility, illness

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    • 14 Ratings
    • 1040 Views
    • 18 Comments
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    The Wheelchair

    APRIL 26, 2011 12:21AM

    By Erica K


    Topics: easter, gunga din, wheelchair, hatred, old wounds, illness

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    • 2172 Views
    • 15 Comments
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    Lung Disease & Shifting Perspectives

    APRIL 8, 2011 10:18AM

    By teendoc


    Topics: grief, faith, illness

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    • 17 Ratings
    • 1930 Views
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    Mid-Century Modern: Life Magazine, January 2, 1950

    JANUARY 28, 2011 8:41AM

    By VariousArtists


    Topics: bing crosby, mid-century modern, armory show, 1920s, women, death, illness, heath, 20th century, variousartists, january 2 1950, life magazine

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    • 23 Ratings
    • 843 Views
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    Mother, Interrupted

    DECEMBER 8, 2010 1:24AM

    By Linda Pressman


    Topics: holocaust, alzheimer's, illness, health

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    • 52 Ratings
    • 2702 Views
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    Cinema for the Indisposed

    NOVEMBER 29, 2010 8:53PM

    By Monsieur Chariot


    Topics: tt, relationships, romance, sex, top hat, gentlemen, film reviews, it's complicated (2010), far from the madding crowd (1967), edge of darkness (2010), last year at marienbad (1961), cinema, invalid, sick, housebound, illness, loneliness, movie reviews, movies, comedy, meryl streep, alec baldwin, steve martin, nancy meyers, alain resnais, alain robbe-grillet, delphine seyrig, giorgio albertazzi, sacha pitoeff, john schelsinger, thomas hardy, julie christie, peter finch, alan bates, terence stamp, mel gibson, ray winstone, danny huston, oksana grigorieva

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    • 43 Ratings
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    Seven Dwarf Syndrome

    JULY 20, 2010 10:45AM

    By Ann Nichols


    Topics: mom is infinitely better, illness, snow white, shouldn't i just be happy and dance with the littlw animals in the forest?

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    • 40 Ratings
    • 1549 Views
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    Hospital Observations

    JULY 12, 2010 1:06AM

    By Ann Nichols


    Topics: compassion, suffering, illness, hospitals

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    • 14 Ratings
    • 2094 Views
    • 25 Comments
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    How Strong Families Work

    MAY 25, 2010 5:30AM

    By Trish Rainbow


    Topics: health, belief/religion, food/drink, comedy, illness, bar mitzvah, families

    • Editor's Pick
    • 91 Ratings
    • 3395 Views
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    The South's Last Shotgun Wedding

    MARCH 4, 2010 11:38AM

    By Bellwether Vance


    Topics: love, illness, proposals, weddings, dads with shotguns, marriage, family

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    • 19 Ratings
    • 3467 Views
    • 27 Comments
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    This is how pneumonia kills people

    SEPTEMBER 7, 2009 6:36PM

    By Del Stone


    Topics: big story, death, illness, pneumonia, del stone jr.

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    • 6 Ratings
    • 1204 Views
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    Is obesity genetically based in addiction?

    JUNE 29, 2009 2:09AM

    By Alicia PhD


    Topics: peer reviewed research, disorders, illness, genetics, obesity

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    • 16 Ratings
    • 2235 Views
    • 10 Comments
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    A 5-Point Plan To Fix Health Care

    MARCH 31, 2009 6:12AM

    By Mortimer Hayden Smyth


    Topics: center for american free thought, trickle down, doctor, medical, disease, illness, medicaid, medicare, free market, gop, obama, universal health care, mortimer hayden smyth

    • Editor's Pick
    • 14 Ratings
    • 704 Views
    • 18 Comments
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    My Blackcat

    MARCH 2, 2009 4:22AM

    By autumnmoon


    Topics: pets, reincarnation, illness, character

    • Editor's Pick
    • 14 Ratings
    • 4763 Views
    • 21 Comments
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    Confessions of a Prevacid Junkie

    DECEMBER 19, 2008 12:06AM

    By Hillbilly Aunt


    Topics: tmi, gross, health, whining, medicine, chronic illness, insurance, big pharma, drugs, illness, navel gazing, choleystectomy

    • Editor's Pick
    • 15 Ratings
    • 2080 Views
    • 26 Comments
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    The curse of the oldest child

    DECEMBER 18, 2008 1:21AM

    By Ardee


    Topics: family, children, caretaker, sisters, illness

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