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Big family, fun family traditions

November 10th, 2008 · 5 Comments · celebrations, memories

One thing I love about having a lot of siblings is that it yields a lot of nieces and nephews.
And together we all get to do really fun things.
Four years ago, in 2004, my parents decided to get tickets for all of us - all 15 of us, at that time - to see the [...]

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On friendships and memories

September 30th, 2008 · 9 Comments · celebrations, friendship, memories

Nine years ago, in 1999, Audrey and I headed to New York City for the summer. I had just finished my freshman year of college and was taking a course at NYU. Audrey was going into her senior year of college and interning for The View.
We lived in an NYU dorm, in a suite with [...]

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Remembering

September 11th, 2008 · 3 Comments · memories

Like most people, I remember the exact moment that I heard about the attacks on 9/11.
I was in college at the time, and I had a 9:00-10:20am journalism class that morning. I had gotten to class a little early, around 8:45am, and settled in.
It was around that very time that the first plane hit the [...]

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