Category: the-art-of-narrative-twilight

• Making My Mother Cry
  How Could I I’ve been reading Hillbilly Elegy this week, about the Scots-Irish who settled in Appalachia and eventually became Hillbillies, are now struggling with widespread unemployment and opioid addiction, and it occurs to me how close my ancestors came to all that, brushing right by it, as it were.  My father was born in San ...
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• Let Me Tell Ya
  Bout the Birds and the Bees I’m sure many of you read the horrifying news in a recent New York Times Magazine that young people are learning about sex from porn that they see on the Internet.  Yikes!  Fellas!  (And girls!)  It’s not like that!  It’s not anything like that!  I’m not saying don’t watch (what ...
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