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Book Preview: #1 I fondly remember the seasons in Kabul: when the buttercups and lilies bloomed, it meant spring had arrived. The fruit trees in our orchard would ripen soon, and I'd play soccer with my friends.
#2 My childhood was filled with fun and friendship. I was the second youngest of eight children, and we lived in a wealthy Kabul neighborhood. I grew up during one of the...
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#1 I met my wife, Jen, at work. We would often make out on the promenade outside of her office, and her phone would drop out of her pocket mid-kiss. She was mortified.
#2 A pseudonym is a name that you use to publish your work that is different from your real name. Jen's pseudonym is Allen Ginsberg, but she has never shared it with family or friends, which is maddening...
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#1 The one thing we can predict about our own lives is that they will be unpredictable. In this life stage, we will be beset by internal and external crises. We must find a new sense of meaning and purpose in our lives.
#2 As we age, our bodies and relationships change, and the pace of change accelerates. We must develop new habits to meet the challenges of this life...
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#1 I had thought I was the link between my children's Asperger's and their diagnoses, but it was actually my husband who had the condition. It didn't matter anyway, because I wasn't a total failure at being human.
#2 The last year had been difficult for me. My best friend had been diagnosed with aggressive, stage IV breast cancer. My daughter had been a Make-A-Wish kid...
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#1 I was a wannabe, and I wanted to be in the cool group. I figured this would be my ticket. I was used as a convenient tool by my roommates, who planned a trip to the mainland. I assured them that my 1966 VW Bus was perfect for the trip.
#2 I had to convince my best friend, Perro, to be an accomplice. He and I had been sworn enemies in middle school, where I was a year...
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#1 The word education comes from the Latin word educare, which means to draw out. Unfortunately for many of us, our memories of education are long, painful sessions of cramming little bits of information into our heads, memorizing them for the test, and then forgetting what we had just learned.
#2 The importance of listening to others, letting others talk, and being...
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#1 In the early spring of 1986, I was at the hospital watching my best friend, Bonnie, who had tongue cancer and had never smoked a day in her life, get her feeding tube removed. She was thirty-one, and I was twenty-six. I was scared for her and her friends, who were all alone in the hospital.
#2 I eventually had to tell Jimmy's mother that her son was dying, and that...
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#1 The pressure of sniper school is mostly mental. You have to be in top physical condition, but you also have to absorb complex skill sets and execute them flawlessly at a machine-gun pace under conditions of constantly increasing intensity.
#2 In the field, your life can depend on making the shot. Out here on the range, it was just our careers on the line. We had to...
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#1 Manifesting is not just thinking something is going to happen, it is encompassing that reality with your entire being. It is standing on a hearth and believing you're on the stage of an arena. It is writing songs and feeling that what you write will reach the masses.
#2 I was in Atlanta with my best friend, Bugus, who was rapping. We needed to get on MTV, so we went...
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#1 I was woken up by the cold, fresh air. I could hear a police siren outside the hotel. The sirens always sounded like they were saying, Uh-oh, oh-oh, uh-oh. I was glad for the invigorating air.
#2 The last of the capsules was being eaten by the couriers. They were being transported back to the United States, and they needed to be eaten so that none would be left behind....
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#1 My parents' house was in the kibbutz's old people's neighborhood. On our right was Clara, who worked in the laundry. Across from us lived Hilda and Shmul, the only old people in the neighborhood who were still a couple. Next to them was Kalman, and I have no idea what he looked like.
#2 My sister, Lily, and my best friend, Iris, were in the army together. When they were discharged,...
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#1 My best friend from college and I had just wrapped up a phone call. She had called to inform me that her son had just accepted a summer internship position near Lansing, Michigan. The job required him to commute from Detroit, which would be an hour each way. She asked if he could spend the night with us on those nights, sleeping in our guestroom.
#2 Inward me and...
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