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Joe Biden: A Good Works Catholic
“You do not make a habit of blowing your own horn or celebrating the defeat of your adversaries. You do Good Works, and then you do more Good Works. You do this because…
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Back in Tracy Chapman & Luke Combs’ “Fast Car”
“Chapman was just so different. So human and real. Her voice and talent felt—back then, and again in February—like a marble-smooth boulder somehow preexisting the river itself. There was all this stuff—all these…
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Forever Sweet Thursday
“As the Fates would have it, I had also contracted mononucleosis the summer after graduation, so when I went to sleep-away college in September, I was unable to participate in the initial months of…
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An Ant, A Lesson & A Slipstream Through Time
“I never liked church. It was boring and stupid, and if not for the little wooden dowels you could pop out of the missalette rack with a carefully prizing fingernail, I would have…
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Michael, Mercedes & Mosca
“Shortly before we met, my bestie and roommate, Mercedes, started making noise about wanting to get a dog—a decision about which I was truly ambivalent. While we had had a dog for a…
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Bound for Glory
“When I go on dates, what I’m really looking for is an invitation into someone’s story for a little while—the way that happens when you’re traveling and happen to sit next to someone…
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Rise, Salman. Rise.
“In the spring of 2003, The Royal Shakespeare Company helped to bring a theatrical production of Rushdie’s allegorical novel Midnight’s Children to the stage of the Apollo Theater. At the time, and still…