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Every year it comes to this. Every year for twenty-five springs, at some point during the first full week of May, I have found myself in Target or a grocery store or at CVS standing in front of the ...

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At the age of twenty, my firstborn came home to tell us that he was in despair over his male body. As the final changes of puberty were making his appearance more masculine, he said he needed to ...

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I can’t think clearly right now because there is a rather substantial section of my prefrontal cortex missing. It’s a fairly important chunk, something having to do with rational thought. You see, it ...

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