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A Scandalous Story of Love: The Move
We spoke with a realtor in the Raleigh area. We scoured Apartment Finder magazines. We spotted an ad in the Boston Globe advertising leases on Honda Civics for a reasonable monthly payment. This is how the world worked back in 1995 before the internet had gone viral. The only thing we didn’t have lined up…
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Cabin Fever
For the first six days of our mountain adventure we had nonstop illness. It came in the form of raging fevers that lasted five days and a 48 hour stomach bug. I literally waited hand and foot on listless children, lounging across sofas, watching countless hours of television. I medicated, forced fluids, and buttered toast…
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Makinley Hope: Waiting
We were fully prepared to learn after our week of testing at NYU, that the seizure activity was bilateral, and surgery wasn’t an option for our daughter Gabrielle. Duke University had already told us that this appeared to be the case. We entered the doors of Langone Medical Center with guarded hope, knowing that without…
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The First 24 Hours
Can I just capture for a moment what it’s sometimes like to travel with seven children… or maybe just any number of children at all? Or perhaps this type of phenomenom is something specific to me and my little corner of chaos in this world. We left our house at 8:00 in the morning, headed…
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Makinley Hope: Part One
It was May 2008 and we found ourselves flying to NYC for a consult with a cutting-edge neurosurgeon. We were desperate to discover whether our daughter Gabrielle might be a candidate for a three-stage brain surgery. A surgery that could possibly extinguish the seizures that were robbing our child of normal development. The plane sped down the…
