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Identifying The Problem

25AugustLynnmemoir

I have a collection of 3-dimensional puzzles my sister gave me. Not the kind where you construct the Taj Mahal out of Styrofoam. The kind with seven or eight pieces that are supposed to add up to a cube or a pyramid or a sphere. They’re nice looking, too. You don’t mind having them out

The Secrets That Define Us

16AugustLynnmemoirfamily, genetics, secrets

Years ago, before my grandmother died, one of my cousins was the first girl on the block to get donor insemination. About the same time, I broke up with the college boyfriend, and my grandmother–who was very much a matchmaker at heart–would bring him up regularly, probe for hints about the odds of us getting

Beginning at the End

26MayLynnmemoiramwriting, family, memoir

Over lunch today, I started in on that memoir. The one that’s probably in bad taste, and definitely too soon, and maybe will never see the light of day, no matter how much time I put in on it. And it isn’t half bad. There’s a voice in the back of my head that tells

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