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    The false deadline of life

    SEPTEMBER 19, 2012 5:04AM

    By ManhattanWhiteGirl


    Topics: travel, life stories, real families, jobs, jet programme, rilke, deadlines, nyc, uw--madison, midwest, ocd, time

    • Editor's Pick
    • 19 Ratings
    • 1660 Views
    • 22 Comments
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    The mini-death of the end of summer

    AUGUST 31, 2012 8:17AM

    By ManhattanWhiteGirl


    Topics: rockaway beach, nyc, summer, families, travel, 9/11, teachers, nyc teaching fellows, education, schools, real families, life stories

    • 6 Ratings
    • 1724 Views
    • 9 Comments
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    NYC single mother and son go camping—without a car

    AUGUST 22, 2012 10:58AM

    By ManhattanWhiteGirl


    Topics: camping, single moms, real families, life stories, beaver pond campground, harriman state park, nyc, travel

    • 6 Ratings
    • 481 Views
    • 6 Comments
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    Is there hope for train travel in the U.S.?

    AUGUST 10, 2012 11:27AM

    By ManhattanWhiteGirl


    Topics: amtrak, train travel, high-speed rail, united states, american recovery and reinvestment act, scott walker, jeffrey schoenburg, andrew cuomo, michael tomasky, freight trains, intercity passenger rail service, real families, life stories

    • 0 Ratings
    • 120 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    On Divorce and Missing my Mother-in-Law

    JUNE 23, 2012 2:14PM

    By RDanberg


    Topics: fatherhood, divorce, real families

    • 5 Ratings
    • 1436 Views
    • 7 Comments
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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
    • 135 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
    • 92 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
    • 83 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

    • Editor's Pick
    • 14 Ratings
    • 2002 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
    • 195 Views
    • 0 Comments
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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
    • 303 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
    • 115 Views
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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

    • Editor's Pick
    • 25 Ratings
    • 4292 Views
    • 24 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
    • 196 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    Liberating the wine

    FEBRUARY 26, 2012 1:36AM

    By abyssinia


    Topics: real families

    • Editor's Pick
    • 13 Ratings
    • 2704 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
    • 975 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
    • 3520 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
    • 1609 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

    • Editor's Pick
    • 6 Ratings
    • 2999 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

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