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Read more: Courage, ingenuity and intelligenceIt was in Lubochna, before she was taken to a concentration camp, that the police came to their apartment and ordered Gerda Buergenthal and her…
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Read more: Rosa Parks, quiet and unassumingRosa Parks, who was born 100 years ago this year, was a quiet, unassuming 42-year-old seamstress when she refused to give up her seat on…
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Read more: A cheese tray?A cheese tray? My assignment is to bring an appetizer for a Saturday evening potluck. But, it’s Friday night, and I’ve had a busy week.…
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Read more: The message is about dreamingSonia Sotomayor, the Supreme Court justice, says that she wrote her new book “to inspire people to realize that first, I was just like them,…
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Read more: Killing fat cellsThe napkins were on the sale table along with an odd assortment of leftover holiday merchandise, but I am sure I would have bought them…
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Read more: Advice from Donna’s motherWe’ve been talking to other women about our soon-to-be-published book The Resolute Woman, and we’ve been inspired by the advice they’ve shared with us. My…
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Read more: How suffering takes placeA very good friend died yesterday, and I have been feeling sad and thinking about the sadness her family is feeling. Recently, when I heard…
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Read more: The first lesson of griefA friend died. She was past 100. She was a friend, but not a close friend. I still felt sad. As I thought about my…
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Read more: Advice from your motherWe firmly believe that mothers usually give great advice, but, no matter who is giving the advice, you need to consider it and decide if…
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Read more: Pretty, glamorous and sparkly-eyedA number of people in Great Britain are in an uproar over the first official portrait of the Duchess of Cambridge. However, Kate, who chose…