I always wanted a name that I loved. My maiden name, Palmer, never fit me. Maybe because I knew it was chosen by random, and we didn’t know what our…
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As a 15-year-old exchange student in France, I arrived in Brittany jetlagged and ill. My French mom offered delicious smelling homemade cuisine. I didn’t want to be unappreciative or rude…
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Those are the words that the man I was dating—a plumber—said to me when I told him I couldn’t meet until after I finished editing a piece for a deadline….
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