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The Case for Using Your Phone as an Actual Phone
It’s a great way to get around the adult friendship problem.

I Lost Myself When I Became a Mom—My Child-Free Friends Found Me
They still saw me as who I was before I became a mother.

The Magazine Girl Is Dead! Long Live the Magazine Girl!
The Devil Wears Prada 2 makes us long for one of our generation’s most beloved archetypes.
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Raise Your Hand If Your Boomer Mom Bailed on You
Did they think teens could just take care of themselves?

Turning 50 Was a Bitch, But Now I’m a Lot Less of One
It was my birthday, and oh yes, I wanted to cry about it.

Tastes Like Home: Keeping My Culture Alive Through Cooking
My grandmother’s recipe book belongs to me, her food belonged to everyone who loved her.

Claudia from ‘The Baby-Sitter’s Club’: My Asian-American Role Model, Then, Now and 4-Eva
Even though she didn’t have the words for it in the ’80s, our writer deeply felt how much representation mattered.







