Tag: Coming of age
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Loading…I Was Taught to Hate My Lesbian Neighbors. They Took Me In Anyway.
The summer my parents’ marriage was falling apart, my best friend’s two moms saved me—even though my dad said they were going to Hell.
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Finding a Family of Boys
Tags: Coming of age Family Friendship Identity Masculinity Memoir Race Self-Discovery Journey Youth & EducationLeaving Brooklyn for a new life as a college student in Manhattan was in itself an act of becoming.
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The Spirit Bride
 had a kind of premonition, even before a word was said, that things were about to shift.
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The Steep Cost of One Night on the Beach With a Boy
After getting pregnant at 16, the author’s community and loved ones, who turned their heads at everyone else’s mistakes, didn’t extend the same kindness to her. It took its toll.
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The Long, Twisting Tale of Two Farm Boys Who Finally Got Their Big Break
A third-generation logger and his wife risked their land so their sons could pursue their music dreams. The brothers made an album almost no one heard—until their genius was discovered decades later.
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What’s the Opposite of Taking Someone’s Virginity?
I finally slept with my best friend, just before he died—and I started to fall apart after he was gone. Then a conversation with his ghost—and a perilous trek through the woods—changed everything.