“Her search for answers would plunge her into 1920s Baltimore society: a celebrated Johns Hopkins scientist, a famous mountaineer and a trailblazing female journalist.”
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Loving Him Meant Facing My Greatest Fear
“Living with a disability, I shielded myself from dance. Then I met him.”
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“To the Train Lady with Dark Brown Hair … :” Extraordinary Stories of Four Couples who Found Love via Small Ads
“Is the medium dying? What might we lose if we let it go, like a stranger rounding an airport corner?”
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The All-American Father
“I said that he’d been a wonderful father, the best I could have asked for … I both did and didn’t believe this.”
Posted inEssays & Criticism
Flying Solo
On self-love and self-acceptance while aging in a disabled body.
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Last Love: a Romance in a Care Home
“Mary and Derek weren’t the first couple to get together at Easterlea Rest Home. But those other relationships had been more like friendships – and this was something else entirely.”
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Ginni and Clarence: A Love Story
“How they saved one another, raged against their enemies, and brought the American experiment to the brink.”
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Hopeless Romantic, Seeking Treatment
“Should limerence—a state of obsessive infatuation—be considered a clinical issue?”
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Blue Daniel
“The more the Editor and I talked, almost daily, at this point, the more I sought ways to create space between us—asking about his children, talking about my boyfriend.”
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The Road to Becoming Enough
I began, if not to turn away from the mythical notion of a man to “complete” me, to accept that there was no love out there for me. I chose mountains instead.