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    Why I was bizarrely happy when my rent went up

    MAY 30, 2012 6:45AM

    By ManhattanWhiteGirl


    Topics: rent, manhattan, nyc, highline, hudson yards, life stories, neighborhoods, sro, leases, bronx, teachers, single moms, children, real families

    • 1 Ratings
    • 47 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    The Lament of the Cider Maker’s Wife

    MAY 26, 2012 10:00AM

    By Straight-No-Chaser Mom


    Topics: life goals, wine, cider, true story, real families, marriage, humor

    • 0 Ratings
    • 16 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Sweeping Mother’s Day under the Rug

    MAY 13, 2012 9:05AM

    By Straight-No-Chaser Mom


    Topics: parenting, mother's day, foster-adopt families, true story, real families

    • 0 Ratings
    • 21 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    The Theoretical Dump and Run, V

    MAY 5, 2012 9:13AM

    By Straight-No-Chaser Mom


    Topics: mothers, parenting, true story, humor, real families, foster-adopt families, perfume, christmas shopping, video game arcade

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    • 14 Ratings
    • 1373 Views
    • 12 Comments
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    My post-9/11, with my 5-lbs. newborn boy

    APRIL 18, 2012 7:01AM

    By ManhattanWhiteGirl


    Topics: washington square, chelsea, missing persons, ground zero, nyc, roosevelt hospital, twin towers, single moms, childbirth, relationships, writers & writing, life stories, real families, 9/11

    • 0 Ratings
    • 135 Views
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    Have Kid, Will Blog

    MARCH 30, 2012 5:08PM

    By Liza Wyles


    Topics: real families, mommy blogs, parenting, paranoia, family

    • 3 Ratings
    • 228 Views
    • 4 Comments
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    Beyond numbers- multiracial families: myth and reality

    MARCH 19, 2012 12:21AM

    By Benin L.


    Topics: real families, pregnancy, race, family, open+call

    • 0 Ratings
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    The story of a woman with four moms

    MARCH 18, 2012 2:18AM

    By Kellen Kaiser


    Topics: lesbian parenting, real families

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    • 25 Ratings
    • 2755 Views
    • 23 Comments
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    A story about my son--born on 9/10/01

    FEBRUARY 29, 2012 6:32AM

    By ManhattanWhiteGirl


    Topics: nyc, roosevelt hospital, preeclampsia, nurses, doctors, twin towers, single moms, childbirth, addiction, alcoholism, relationships, writers & writing, life stories, real families, 9/11

    • 1 Ratings
    • 149 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    Liberating the wine

    FEBRUARY 26, 2012 1:36AM

    By abyssinia


    Topics: real families

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    • 13 Ratings
    • 1467 Views
    • 17 Comments
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    The joys of a sick day: A single/working mother’s refuge

    JANUARY 11, 2012 5:51AM

    By ManhattanWhiteGirl


    Topics: nyc, real families, life stories, teaching, bronx, education reform, race to the top, single mothers, kids, education

    • 4 Ratings
    • 749 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    How I almost became an NYC art critic

    DECEMBER 14, 2011 5:20AM

    By ManhattanWhiteGirl


    Topics: real families, life stories, writers & writing, neue galerie, nyc art museums, museum mile nyc, art, art critics, 9/11

    • Editor's Pick
    • 9 Ratings
    • 2932 Views
    • 9 Comments
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    How I learned to stop worrying and love my crazy NY neighbor

    DECEMBER 7, 2011 5:09AM

    By ManhattanWhiteGirl


    Topics: nypd, crack/meth, community, nyc, neighbors, real families, life stories, stalkers

    • 3 Ratings
    • 1071 Views
    • 6 Comments
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    Megabus: NYC - Baltimore--oh, yeah

    NOVEMBER 30, 2011 7:31AM

    By ManhattanWhiteGirl


    Topics: real families, life stories, travel, megabus, baltimore, nyc

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    • 6 Ratings
    • 2015 Views
    • 8 Comments
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    Update on affordable housing in Manhattan: there is none

    NOVEMBER 23, 2011 5:23AM

    By ManhattanWhiteGirl


    Topics: affordable housing nyc, gentrification, rent, nycha, nychpd, real families, life stories

    • 1 Ratings
    • 247 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    The Broken Furnace

    NOVEMBER 4, 2011 11:18AM

    By Laura Wilkerson


    Topics: life stories, real families, marriage, money, finances, warmth, furnace

    • 1 Ratings
    • 776 Views
    • 4 Comments
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    Education Reform gets Radical--Hint: Family Guy

    OCTOBER 12, 2011 5:54AM

    By ManhattanWhiteGirl


    Topics: real families, education reform, family guy, humor

    • 0 Ratings
    • 144 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Silver Feather

    SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 8:19PM

    By Migs Bassig


    Topics: philippines, gay/lesbian, family, real families

    • 2 Ratings
    • 724 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    If Only My Mother Had That Tattoo

    SEPTEMBER 20, 2011 1:44PM

    By Joan E. Kaufman


    Topics: real families, life stories, tattoo, love, children, acceptance, babies, fat, nose job, acceptance, diet, tribal art, mothers, daughters

    • 0 Ratings
    • 46 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Never The Right Amount

    SEPTEMBER 1, 2011 10:24AM

    By Mickie Rinehart


    Topics: real families, dnr, parents, dying, family

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