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Nana

  by Wanda Fischer My grandmother did not bake cookies. She didn’t wear a white apron and read stories to my sisters and me. My grandmother was a resident of the state hospital for the mentally ill in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. She was committed in 1940, when my mother, the youngest of her four children,

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Unresolved

By Diane Kane “Jeff and I are getting a divorce.” “But why?” I asked. “Mom, it’s complicated.” “Can’t you work it out?” “We’ve tried,” Shannon said. “There’s no other solution.” I grieved over twelve years of marriage and two children, broken. What could I do? There was no room for my pain. After all, it

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