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I hesitate, from the apprehension of the ridicule, when I approach the heated subject of my university life. By this word I do not mean the diversity,...
Steve, a twelve-year-old boy with alcoholic parents, was about to be lost forever, by the U.S. education system. Remarkably, he could read, yet, in sp...
A young man was getting ready to graduate from college. For many months he had admired a beautiful sports car in a dealer's showroom, and knowing ...
He was 11 years old and went fishing every chance he got from the dock at his family’s cabin on an island in the middle of a New Hampshire lake....
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My mother did not work outside the home until later in life. And then she worked part-time in a bakery, waiting on people. She had me play where she c...
As I stood at the gate in the busy airport waiting for my plane, my mind went back to all the changes in my life during the past months. My marriage h...
Blessed indeed is the man who hears manygentle voices call him father!Lydia M. ChildWhen I was a little girl, my father had a time-honored tradition o...