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"I don’t think I stopped shaking in anger for days. I became obsessed with understanding and solving this mystery. How did this happen to me?"
"Defeated and disgusted with myself, I give up and slam shut the freezer door, sliding to the dirty floor in sobs."
"By assuming we all want the same thing, Donald Trump is ignoring those of us who believe that children are our collective responsibility."
"Over the years I’ve tried to fill in the blanks. What did he look like? Who might he have become if he were healthy and had lived?"
WHAT'S HAPPENING
"It wasn’t until my sister was in college that any of us learned what was wrong with Joel."
"For three years I split my focus as cancer tried to pull my daughter out of my hands, and all the while I was haunted by the thought that I was wasting the last years of her life."
"If we elect Trump as president once again, I fear we’ll return to this dark age of cruelty toward those who look and sound slightly different."
"Society is not kind to women who age," the author writes. "But aging has given me something that I didn’t even know I needed."
"Two weeks before Christmas, I found my husband, Ted, lying on the ground of our brand-new home ... unable to move."
"For close to six months, I could not walk without a cane, or I had to be pushed in a wheelchair or hold on to a friend, sibling or son. I could not button clothes or use a pen to write."