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Jul 26th, 2010 |
By Christina Enevoldsen |
Category: All Posts, Christina's Blog
by Christina Enevoldsen In the dark children’s tale “Hansel and Gretal”, a young brother and sister are abandoned in the woods by their father at the insistence of their step-mother. She convinces her husband that the whole family will perish unless they reduce the number of bellies to feed. Lost and starving, the children find [...]
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Jul 25th, 2010 |
By Christina Enevoldsen |
Category: All Posts, Christina's Blog
by Christina Enevoldsen It was the first time in weeks since my husband and I had been on a date. Don held my hand and I rested my head on his chest while we waited in line for the planetarium show at Griffith Observatory. The young couple a few feet in front of us caught [...]
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Oct 22nd, 2009 |
By Bethany Ruck |
Category: All Posts, Our Stories
My brother’s first memory was the adventure of crawling underneath the fence in our backyard to play with the neighbor’s dogs. I envy him. My first memory was of getting raped. I remember laying on the kitchen table with my open diaper covered in blood — an image that constantly repeats itself in my head. [...]
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