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    A Mormon Missionary's Heart

    JUNE 25, 2012 2:45AM

    By Rachel Velamur


    Topics: communication, sister, family, illness, lds church, brazil, missionaries, book of mormon, mormon

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    • 17 Ratings
    • 3188 Views
    • 10 Comments
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    Can Do No More

    FEBRUARY 17, 2012 9:36AM

    By Kristina Lakes


    Topics: motherhood, family, illness, work, employment, femla

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    • 41 Ratings
    • 1952 Views
    • 44 Comments
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    Grace

    FEBRUARY 11, 2012 8:01PM

    By Bernadine Spitzsnogel


    Topics: dementia, death, illness, aging, grief, optimism, hope, grace, love, family, vascular dementia, frog in soup

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    • 9 Ratings
    • 2514 Views
    • 18 Comments
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    The Almost Child

    JANUARY 24, 2012 2:22PM

    By Lesley Clark Ferree


    Topics: cancer, death, dying, doctors, kids, love, life, happiness, sadness, children, female, ovaries, cyst, illness, sickness, childbirth, friendship

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    • 3 Ratings
    • 1357 Views
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    30 Hours of Sleep, or, The Fantasy of Escape

    DECEMBER 14, 2011 5:29PM

    By Rachel Kramer Bussel


    Topics: sleep, sleeping, fantasy, escape, escapism, rachel kramer bussel, illness

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    • 4 Ratings
    • 1695 Views
    • 6 Comments
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    Two Mothers in the NICU

    SEPTEMBER 18, 2011 9:55AM

    By Kristina Lakes


    Topics: adoption, family, motherhood, infertility, illness

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    • 14 Ratings
    • 1140 Views
    • 18 Comments
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    The Wheelchair

    APRIL 26, 2011 12:21AM

    By Erica K


    Topics: easter, gunga din, wheelchair, hatred, old wounds, illness

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    • 14 Ratings
    • 2585 Views
    • 15 Comments
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    Lung Disease & Shifting Perspectives

    APRIL 8, 2011 10:18AM

    By teendoc


    Topics: grief, faith, illness

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    • 17 Ratings
    • 2429 Views
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    Mid-Century Modern: Life Magazine, January 2, 1950

    JANUARY 28, 2011 8:41AM

    By VariousArtists


    Topics: bing crosby, mid-century modern, armory show, 1920s, women, death, illness, heath, 20th century, variousartists, january 2 1950, life magazine

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    • 23 Ratings
    • 985 Views
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    Mother, Interrupted

    DECEMBER 8, 2010 1:24AM

    By Linda Pressman


    Topics: holocaust, alzheimer's, illness, health

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    • 52 Ratings
    • 3086 Views
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    Cinema for the Indisposed

    NOVEMBER 29, 2010 8:53PM

    By Monsieur Chariot


    Topics: tt, relationships, romance, sex, top hat, gentlemen, film reviews, it's complicated (2010), far from the madding crowd (1967), edge of darkness (2010), last year at marienbad (1961), cinema, invalid, sick, housebound, illness, loneliness, movie reviews, movies, comedy, meryl streep, alec baldwin, steve martin, nancy meyers, alain resnais, alain robbe-grillet, delphine seyrig, giorgio albertazzi, sacha pitoeff, john schelsinger, thomas hardy, julie christie, peter finch, alan bates, terence stamp, mel gibson, ray winstone, danny huston, oksana grigorieva

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    • 14 Ratings
    • 2190 Views
    • 25 Comments
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    How Strong Families Work

    MAY 25, 2010 5:30AM

    By Trish Rainbow


    Topics: health, belief/religion, food/drink, comedy, illness, bar mitzvah, families

    • Editor's Pick
    • 19 Ratings
    • 6058 Views
    • 27 Comments
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    This is how pneumonia kills people

    SEPTEMBER 7, 2009 6:36PM

    By Del Stone


    Topics: big story, death, illness, pneumonia, del stone jr.

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    • 6 Ratings
    • 1327 Views
    • 11 Comments
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    Is obesity genetically based in addiction?

    JUNE 29, 2009 2:09AM

    By Alicia PhD


    Topics: peer reviewed research, disorders, illness, genetics, obesity

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    • 16 Ratings
    • 2520 Views
    • 10 Comments
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    A 5-Point Plan To Fix Health Care

    MARCH 31, 2009 6:12AM

    By Mortimer Hayden Smyth


    Topics: center for american free thought, trickle down, doctor, medical, disease, illness, medicaid, medicare, free market, gop, obama, universal health care, mortimer hayden smyth

    • Editor's Pick
    • 14 Ratings
    • 735 Views
    • 18 Comments
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    My Blackcat

    MARCH 2, 2009 4:22AM

    By autumnmoon


    Topics: pets, reincarnation, illness, character

    • Editor's Pick
    • 14 Ratings
    • 5963 Views
    • 21 Comments
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    Confessions of a Prevacid Junkie

    DECEMBER 19, 2008 12:06AM

    By Hillbilly Aunt


    Topics: tmi, gross, health, whining, medicine, chronic illness, insurance, big pharma, drugs, illness, navel gazing, choleystectomy

    • Editor's Pick
    • 15 Ratings
    • 2392 Views
    • 26 Comments
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    The curse of the oldest child

    DECEMBER 18, 2008 1:21AM

    By Ardee


    Topics: family, children, caretaker, sisters, illness

    • Editor's Pick
    • 17 Ratings
    • 1161 Views
    • 10 Comments
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    Coming to Terms with ALS

    DECEMBER 10, 2008 6:00PM

    By devadsigheid


    Topics: family, illness, acceptance, love, patience, health, belief and religion

    • Editor's Pick
    • 46 Ratings
    • 4437 Views
    • 57 Comments
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    Yesterday I was Healthy. Today I Have Cancer

    NOVEMBER 14, 2008 9:46AM

    By Jason D. Hill


    Topics: skin cancer, sickness, friendships, illness, cancer

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