“I knew deep down he wasn’t interested in esoteric explanations about death. He wanted to know it, to see it up close and poke at it in the same way he investigated the bugs in our backyard.” I wrote about grief and talking death w kids
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losing a sister that way…i couldn’t imagine how destabilizing the pain would be. this really is an incredible story that ill be thinking about for a very very long time
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A year ago, Barbara Massey-Mapps’ sister, Kat, was murdered by a white supremacist in a Buffalo grocery store. If the state doesn’t kill him — the shooter faces the death penalty — she wants to.
I wrote about black rage: nytimes.com/2023/05/10/mag
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Most won't watch this full video, but there are a couple of quotes people need to see: "The first girl I walked up to was crouched down covering her head in the bushes, so I felt for a pulse, pulled her head to the side and she had no face."
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I felt he deserved my attempt at the full picture of what it means to be alive, of the true price of this incredible experience. That a long life is not promised, it’s only what we hope for, and when and how we die is something no one knows. writes
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I felt he deserved my attempt at the full picture of what it means to be alive, of the true price of this incredible experience. That a long life is not promised, it’s only what we hope for, and when and how we die is something no one knows. writes
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Why would you bother? What’s the show even about at that point?
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Question: Could you do an 11th season of Vanderpump Rules without Sandoval?
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Yeah yeah sure very cool. No coffee, no booze, no sex, no smoking. Only work.
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