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Sending You a Bit of Light
 • Alice Goldbloom
54
The Joy of Still Being Here
 • Alice Goldbloom
16
I Shouldn't Be Writing This
 • Alice Goldbloom
61
Some Things Never Change
 • Alice Goldbloom
39
Aging As Best I Can
 • Ruth Miller
28
Saying Goodbye
 • Kristin Shannon
39
Double My Duplicate
When I was a child, we often had dinner at my grandmother’s on Friday nights.
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Virginia Fisher Yaffe
18
Aging As Best I Can
These days, before I leave the house, I make my bed and straighten up things in the kitchen, in case I don’t come home.
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Ruth Miller
28
The Other Frank McCourt
In the summer of 1964, my Uncle Frank came home to Dublin after living for a half-century in America.
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Paula Halpin
17
I Shouldn't Be Writing This
I was getting ready to send you this week's story—a charming one about an Irish Yank—but I couldn't do it.
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Alice Goldbloom
61
When Less is More
My longtime grocery store has closed.
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Judith Andre
13
The New Joseph
Joseph, our departmental messenger, was a gold medal contender in the swivel chair sleep Olympics, during my tenure in the mid-1990s at the African…
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Mariam S. Pal
4
Does One Tire of One’s Beating Heart?
My mother smiled indulgently when I polished up my trumpet and travelled with my university’s Varsity Band to football games in other cities where we…
 • 
Peter Newman
46
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