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House of Fire
Can India’s Parsis survive their own success? By Nell Freudenberger.
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William ‘Preston’ King: From running with ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ to homeless
IT WAS the 1980s, greed was good, and William “Preston” King was on top of the world.
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Why is surrogacy so difficult for Australians?
AS A single man, babies didn’t really come into my thought process. Then, about 18 months ago, I was watching my father, brother and nephew play together and I just thought, “This is what the good men in my family do – they have a family.”
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My Grandfather’s Imposter
The Explorer’s Club headquarters fill a five-story Jacobean townhouse on East 70th Street in Manhattan. The inside looks lifted from the opening scenes of an Indiana Jones movie: Wood panels, stuffed leopards snarling, mounted expedition flags, and photographs of triumphant explorers line the walls... By James McGirk.
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As My Face Disappeared So Did My Mother and Father
When a horrifying bacterial infection disfigured my newborn face, my parents abandoned me right there in my hospital bed. The only thing more painful than knowing they left me behind was finding them 38 years later. By Howard Shulman.
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‘I was raised in a religious cult’: New book Joy and Sorrow details life in the Exclusive Brethren
FOR the first 25 years of her life, Joy Nason lived in constant fear of “God’s wrath” — to the point where death was a better option than confessing her sins.
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Face it, most millennial dads are hypocrites
Around the time my firstborn was learning to walk, my wife and I tried a tag-team approach to parenting. I'd take most of the early morning shifts and then head to the office. Most evenings, no matter what was happening at work, I'd log back in at home, and my wife would pursue her career as a modern dancer. Our schedules were so distinct that we shared a single unlimited subway pass.
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What’s in a Necronym?
I am named after the daughter my father lost... By Jeannie Vanasco.
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The Heirs
A three-way, mostly civilized family contest to become the next publisher of the Times. By Gabriel Sherman.
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Why the dying see their deceased relatives before they go – and what my dying mom told me she saw
My quest to understand what the dying see began when I found out that my mom only had a few months (if that) to live. I wanted to be familiar with the stages she would go through and how I could best be there for her... By Jen Engevik.
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History Is Who You’ve Lost
I, without knowing, dreamed parts of a truth. One part is this: my grandfather on my mother’s side was a murderer. Or was he? By Rita Gabis.
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Man sings to 93 year old dying wife
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The Wretched Table: How Dinner in America Became an Ordeal
Elinor Ochs has seen both the sublime and the terrifying when it comes to family. When she greeted me at her ranch house in Pacific Palisades last January, Ochs, a slender woman with a bell of curly dark hair, sat me down at a long wooden table for the first course of what she’d promised would be a “really informal” meal: a salad of sliced green beans, avocados, tomatoes, and buffalo mozzarella.
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How our housing choices make adult friendships more difficult
Hard to mix and mingle when you live in an auto-dependent suburban castle.
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Family Inc.
A new generation of parents is taking solutions from the workplace and transferring them to the home. From accountability checklists to branding sessions, the result is a bold new blueprint for happy families, writes Bruce Feiler.
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Suffer the children
Trouble in the [Australian Federal] Family Court. By Jess Hill.
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Hidden in a Suitcase
In search of the mother who gave her up for adoption, the author finds six siblings instead. Decades later, she contemplates the drug addiction that cost many of them their lives. By Michele Leavitt.
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Da Art of Storytellin’ (A Prequel)
I didn’t fully understand or feel inspired by Grandmama’s stank or freshness until years later, when I heard the albums ATLiens and Aquemini from those Georgia-based artists called OutKast. By Kiese Laymon.
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The Dialectic of Love and Authority
The title of Christopher Lasch's controversial book Haven in a Heartless World: The Family Besieged misled many of his critics. By George Scialabba.
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The life and times of Strider Wolf
He has traveled so far, from near-fatal abuse to here, invisible among Maine’s poorest, in the care of grandparents who have little left to give but love - and just enough of that. Yet somehow Strider is climbing. How high? How far? By Sarah Schweitzer.
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