Birthday Story
I recall in vivid detail the morning of my 45th birthday. My brother phoned me up to sing “Happy Birthday”. We chatted for a while and then I proceeded to share with him how I was agonizing over the...
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Counting Backwards by Linda Pastan How did I get so old, I wonder, contemplating my 67th birthday. Dyslexia smiles: I’m 76 in fact. There are places where at 60 they start counting backwards; in Japan...
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Letter from a Mother to a Daughter: “My dear girl, the day you see I’m getting old, I ask you to please be patient, but most of all, try to understand what I’m going through. If when we talk, I repeat...
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