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Times Insider
A Wealthy Suburban Community’s Disturbing Open Secrets
Emily Flitter’s reporting in Lake Oswego, Ore., revealed that a perfect-looking town can give cover to a campaign of intimidation and fear.It takes more than a town; it takes a nation and a Wing.
Eventually denial fails.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluebeard
I did not think.
I did not know the time required.
I did not know.
I heard you.
Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
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Style
Must I Visit My Dying and Dangerously Facebook-Active Uncle?
A reader wonders whether it’s advisable to “leave politics at the door” and say goodbye to a xenophobic relative in hospice.
"No,
the only reason to make a pilgrimage to see this problematic relative
is if the man ever treated you with love and kindness — even as a child.
If he did, you have at least one thing to weigh against the
hate-mongering of his later days. It may not be enough for you, and I
would respect that too, but it’s something to keep in mind.
The
other consideration is the suffering of his immediate kin. If you have a
tender impulse toward them, in what is surely a terrible time, I can
envision a farewell visit that is made for their sake and not for the
dying man’s. There are a few moving pieces here, even putting aside your
relatives’ sillier claims. Think about it, and wherever you land is the
right answer (for you)."
Possibly leaving husband and child at the door with your politics would satisfy the living and please the dying.
Hospice goes surprisingly quickly.
Mother never spoke beyond "I want to go home."
I assured she was home. She relaxed. Ann stayed a few days and ran. Jim came down and spent the time I could not hold her hand.
She passed into unconsciousness and death in about two weeks a few weeks shy of her 96th birthday.
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Obituaries
Deborah Carrington, 58, Dies; Actress and Stuntwoman
Her dwarfism allowed her to play Ewoks and Geex, and she was admired as a stunt double, but she was happiest to get work as a character actress.I did not know her name.
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The Upshot
The Ivy League Students Least Likely to Get Married
At Princeton, and in the American higher education system as a whole, there remains a strong correlation between marriage and economic class.We kept going broke and becoming more asocial.
Madness was a constant threat.
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Business Day
Laura Ingraham, Facing Boycott, Apologizes for Taunting Parkland Survivor David Hogg
Ms. Ingraham, a Fox News host, had mocked Mr. Hogg over his college rejections. “She only apologized after we went after her advertisers,” he said. “It kind of speaks for itself.”The Second Amendment must be modified.
It should be Replaced.
Retail death at a distance must be enough.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge_of_the_Light_Brigade
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Charge_of_the_Light_Brigade_%28poem%29
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/charge-light-brigade
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Real Estate
Family of Christine Beshar, Trailblazing Lawyer, Selling Co-op
The estate of Christine Beshar, one of the first female partners of a Wall Street law firm, is selling the East End Avenue home where she lived for 47 years.I wish.
I dream.
Lawyers make money. Her husband was earning.
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Books
Brainy and Benighted, Lost in the Books of Bolaño and Borges
Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi’s novel “Call Me Zebra” charts a young Iranian émigré’s quest to honor her family’s devotion to literature.https://fleursdumal.org/poem/151
A translation is below the French.
https://fleursdumal.org/poem/151
Oloomi's version has power Milay's lacks.
"Vengeance is a poor dish best eaten cold"
In 2000 I thought I would not suffer.
My error.
Marla Suffered. She wanted to know why. I told her.
I suffered happily. I wondered about masochism.
It did not fit. Neither did sadism.
I did not intend that you suffer.
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Style
For a 30-Year-Old Virgin, It’s Now or Never
A young woman facing a health crisis decides to have sex for the first time, while fearing it may be her last time.I never cared about virginity. I still don't. It shocks and confuses believers of all kinds.
Dyslexia is a cruel disability. It is invisible.
Art does not fix it.
I was eating the rent and the phone bill.
Rail fair meant going with less food.
I was not a truly skilled cook.
Most artists starve.
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Real Estate
Homes for Sale in Manhattan and Brooklyn
This week’s properties are in Washington Heights, Murray Hill and Dumbo, Brooklyn.Of these Washington Heights is my favorite.
Probate Would make me comfortable.
Meanwhile I am in straightened circumstances.
Green County and madness beckon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greene_County,_New_York
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Well
Utah Passes ‘Free-Range’ Parenting Law
A new law in Utah is the first in the nation written to protect parents who allow children to walk to school alone or play unsupervised."Free Range Parenting" is correct.
There will be disasters but there are always disasters.
The Pied Piper of Hamlin is probably a remnant of the Children's Crusade.
Measels, Mumps, German measels, whooping cough, scarlet fever, and polio are now preventable. Work is being done on the genetic diseases and birth defects.
People alive today are survivors of natural selection. They and their ancestors were incredibly lucky to live, breed and raise another generation to do the same. The children must learn to prosper. Parents can help teach but the children must learn or die young. We can teach and shelter some.
We cannot do for all.
We must not act to speed the death of others.
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