as they grow
And Puppy Makes Five

By Leslie Watson

For the last several years Helen has lobbied hard to expand our family’s animal kingdom beyond a single bad-tempered cat. Her chief argument–that the cat just isn’t much of a pet–is pretty convincing.

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the daddy files
The Road to Romance... or Not

By Rick Epstein

I was 15 and so girl-crazy that I should have been institutionalized. Instead, my father took me on a family road trip.

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tween/teen times
Summer (Facebook?) Reading

By Julie Pfitzinger

The summer between my freshman and sophomore years of high school, I made a personal pledge to read Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. Despite the fact that my paperback version logged in at a daunting 850+ pages, I vowed to hang in until the bitter end.

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