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Why is it no one ever asks John Updike where hiskid is while he's on book tour?
By Susie Bright
October 2, 1999
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Once, I thought my daughter would win the Nobel Prize. Now that she's started college, I just hope she keeps her phone, her power, her housing -- and remembers to wake up for class.
By Stephen J. Lyons
August 19, 1999
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Something beyond life or death lingers of the girl I didn't get to mother.
By Jayne Anne Phillips
April 28, 1999
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If you spent your girlhood learning to toughen up, what happens when your daughter is the sensitive type who makes flower stews?
By Mona Gable
January 21, 1999
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How ethical is it to choose the sex of your baby, and what does
it mean for the future of the human race?
By Lisa Moskowitz
September 15, 1998
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How ethical is it to choose the sex of your baby, and what does
it mean for the future of the human race?
By Lisa Moskowitz
September 15, 1998
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Charming and vicious, brilliant and stupid, my father was not an easy person to be around -- even during our final visit.
By Gina Hyams
June 19, 1998
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What had I left in the Florida of my childhood vacations that I wanted my children to find?
By Ann Hood
June 17, 1998
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By Gina Arnold
February 2, 1998
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Even a mother's love can be replaced.
By Sallie Tisdale
September 16, 1997
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In a world of masks, our families -- broken-down, weary, enduring -- connect us to who we really are.
By Anne Lamott
July 31, 1997
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Famous actresses by day, at night they sought the "high" that only cleaning can bring
By Isabella Rossellini
July 5, 1997
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Are older men who marry younger women randy old goats?
By Courtney Weaver
November 25, 1996
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Alex Kuczinski reviews Mary Gordon's memoir, "The Shadow Man: A Daughter's Search for Her Father".
By Alex Kuczinski
May 7, 1996