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All my life, I've had this recurring dream that causes me to wake up feeling strange. In it, I am a little girl again, rushing about, trying to ge...
Harry is every coach's dream kid: He shows up for every practice early, stays late and is enthusiastic. Harry is also every coach's nightmare:...
Ron was a fifteen-year-old teenager, a tenth-grade student at Granger High School. It was game day, and he was the only sophomore suiting up with the ...
Every April, my school's eighth-grade class travels to Washington, D.C., for their class trip. It's a long ride from New Jersey, but it's ...
I know now that the man who sat with me on the old wooden stairs that hot summer night over thirty-five cars ago was not a tall man. But to a five-yea...
I was married three times before I was seven years old.My older brother Gary performed the ceremonies in our basement. Gary was good at entertaining t...
It is cold, so bitter cold, on this dark, winter day in 1942. But it is no different from any other day in this Nazi concentration camp. I stand shive...
It was fall 1945, and I returned to Vienna with the first American occupation troops. I had been there three months earlier as an interpreter of Germa...