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  •  “But, you are so cool!” This is what one guy told me as he was breaking up with me after a short-lived yet well-matched relationship. He ended the budding romance because I anonymously blogged about him – and I wrote only good things, mind you.  Apparently, it was too much, and he disappeared from my

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  • I recently had my yearly physical. I am perfectly healthy, thank goodness. My blood pressure is almost too low and I have a wonderful resting heart rate. I don’t need to take medically necessary prescription medications.  With the exception of ongoing, slight anemia and a few aches of getting older, there is nothing physically or

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  • On a dark night in a Baku, Azerbaijan, your father and I hailed a taxi. We were lucky. It took only two minutes for one to pass our way. Your father spoke in hurried Russian to get us to the hospital in time for your arrival. At 3:31 am, on February 13, 2002, you entered

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  • I left my marriage the end of 2011. The details are complicated. I spent 12 years raising an assortment of my ex-husband’s five children. The son I had with him made six. Our marriage failed for the same reason many marriages do: we grew apart. In the year after I left, I grew to love

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