From Heartbreak to Home: How One Family Turned Adoption Trials into a Forever Sisterhood
“We Are Adopting!” I can still hear my parents shouting the announcement to my older sister, older brother, and me ...
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17 and Pregnant, Walking Across the Stage in Labor: How One Teen Mom Turned Her Son’s Autism Diagnosis Into a Story of Hope
Senior year is supposed to be a time for celebrating the end of high school—the most pivotal moment of being ...
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Married ‘Too Young,’ Pregnant and Sick, and Raising Kids Through a Pandemic — 11 Years Later, She Proves Love Really Does Grow Stronger
My husband and I celebrated our eleventh anniversary this month, and it still amazes me how fast those years have ...
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At 24, she chose single motherhood by choice—and faced a high-risk pregnancy that could have ended her dream. Here’s how love, courage, and determination brought baby Sienna home.
Young Adulthood My story begins in 2016. I had just graduated from Vassar College with a bachelor’s degree in anthropology ...
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At 42, I Finally Found Myself Amid COVID—Discovering I’m Nonbinary Changed Everything, Especially My Family Life
I realized I was nonbinary last year, at 42, right in the middle of COVID-19 social distancing. Life was quiet, ...
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