Sister’s Keeper BY CATHY FREE ‘where’s molly? Jeff Daly asked his parents one grey spring afternoon in 1957. The six-year-old Jeff stood staring at the empty chair where his little
My Father’s Sweater BY MARY PLESHETTE WILLIS Soon after my father’s death by suicide, my mother and I stood in his closet, still sour-sweet with the smell of him, and
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Love always in BY DOROTHY WOODEND I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t head over heels in love with someone. My first crush was on star Trek’s Mr Spock
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Funny Girl BY LYNN ROSELLINI The tingling began in her right foot. Then, jogging in New York’s Central Park, Teri Garr stumbled. That’s odd, she thought. What am I tripping
“He’s Got a Knife!’’ BY LYNN ROSELLINI A scream shattered the stillness of the Goddwin House retirement home one Sunday afternoon last January. How odd, though John springer, there visiting