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Recent chatter on social media featured a young woman telling her story of how political developments in the United States encouraged her to flee her home country and settle in Costa Rica. But Costa Rica wasn’t the paradise she envisioned. With the value of hindsight, she has come to feel the absence of the blessings and benefits
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Moving day is fast approaching for me, and until yesterday I was fretting about logistics. Boxes for packing up my books have been hard to come by, and I was stressing over who I could ask to help with the actual move. One friend was available, but another is recovering from surgery, while my middle
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On my honeymoon, my husband and I began reading J. R. R. Tolkien’s “The Fellowship of the Ring” aloud to each other as we drove. Some may deem that a nerdy way of spending one’s newlywed days, but we enjoyed it, and our enjoyment led us to read through the entire “Lord of the Rings” trilogy within
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In Rebecca Serle’s novel “In Five Years,” narrator and protagonist Dannie Cohan follows the path she set for herself as an adolescent. She becomes a lawyer with no ambitions for the courtroom, tackling instead the crisp, clear language of the law and contracts. “It was like poetry, but poetry with outcome, poetry with concrete meaning—with
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“Is this heaven?” Shoeless Joe Jackson asks Ray Kinsella in Field of Dreams. I’ve always loved that line. Growing up on an Iowa farm, we had our own ball field behind our house. My dad built a backstop for my brothers and me long before Kevin Costner ever heard “The Voice.” On summer evenings, Dad would
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