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Our Whispering Wombs
… passed down like fragile heirlooms, fill the void. Sarah died in 1850, just two days after birthing her tenth child. … death. Her uterus held the future of the slave economy, and also of our family. Before she died, Sarah urged Richard to … the radiologist’s certainty may have offered my mom some comfort in the moment, this is not how she remembers it. She …
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Everything Circles Back Around
… several months after we moved in, a four-year-old boy died when amoebas, discovered in the tap water, ate into his … is fading, mouldering, crumbling—slowly but certainly,” Lafcadio Hearn wrote about New Orleans, in 1878. And it … marine life ecology environment global warming pollution 26-31 By Justin Nobel …
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The Madness of It All: A Rumination on War, Journalism, and Brotherhood
… was constantly under observation by the NVA, and we did not come or go without their knowing it. Mostly we stayed inside … scout, Mike Bylinoski, was hit in the head by shrapnel and died on the medevac chopper. The one time I went outside our … wounded or crippled, or get killed. I must tell you also that it embarrasses me to say some of these things. No …
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Profits and False Promises
… drug I was on (brand name Taxol), contains an active ingredient by the same name. It also contains castor oil, an … in Switzerland (1905), England (1918), the Soviet Union (1926), the United States (1934), Italy (1936), and Japan … abandon a confrontational stance, since scoring political points for protecting American health could now be done far …
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Rory’s Story
… coffee. Suddenly, there is the sound of broken glass as I come flying through the window behind them. A surreal … of the Spirits . Plot has never been one of Rory’s strong points, so I think he relates to Fellini’s amorphous method … as he is with money. He calls me “Buddy,” but we are not buddies. I can’t recall having a single conversation with him. …
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Black and Blue and Blond
… just shy about her English. It turned out we had a lot in common. I saw her a second time a month later in New York … wasn’t a conscious decision; it was simply the more I’d studied at large universities, the more I’d traveled and lived … yet—however naïve this could seem now—I had somehow always also taken for granted that, when the time came to have …
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