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Childhood is incredibly fragile and fleeting. And though its passage can be gauged in finite increments of months and years, parents easily identify with the “first times” which punctuate their memories. Some, such as first words and first steps, are rarely forgotten. Still, a subtle exchange is underway as “first times” are seamlessly displaced by “last [...] "Your friend," said Elbert Hubard, "is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you." Friends possess the peculiar ability to see beyond shortcomings and failures that mere acquaintances stumble over. True friends endure. Perhaps I was too much of a stick in the mud, too slow to adapt to the drastic change in [...] The news jolted me into another world–a world of long-forgotten uncertainty and anxiety. Dormant memories emerged as ghastly specters. The news that two sets of friends have discovered life-threatening health problems with their children rewound my mind 28 years to our daughter Jenny's birth. Suspecting nothing, we hardly raised an eyebrow when the doctor reported "complications" [...] |
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