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  I SMILED THROUGH MY RETIREMENT PARTY—BUT NO ONE KNEW WHAT I HAD JUST DONE IN THE LOCKER ROOM

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  MY TREATMENT WASN’T WORKING—UNTIL I STARTED DOING THIS ONE THING IN SECRET

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  MY SISTER SAYS HER SON IS “JUST PLAYFUL”—BUT I’M STARTING TO SEE SOMETHING ELSE

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  MY NEPHEW REFUSES TO GROW UP—AND HIS PARENTS ARE JUST LETTING IT HAPPEN

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  MY KIDS WERE JUST PLAYING ON THE SWING—UNTIL THEY BOTH STARTED SAYING STRANGE THINGS

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  MY DOG STOLE A HOT DOG AT THE BALLGAME—BUT INSTEAD OF GETTING MAD, THE CROWD DID SOMETHING I NEVER EXPECTED

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  MY LITTLE GIRL CHOKED ON A TOY—AND WEEKS LATER, SHE ASKED FOR A TEA PARTY WITH THE COP WHO SAVED HER LIFE

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  WE LOVE HIKING SO MUCH, WE TOOK OUR BABY INTO THE WILDERNESS—BUT WHAT WE FOUND AT THE SUMMIT MADE US STOP COLD

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  MY SON INSISTED ON BRINGING TWO BACKPACKS TO HIS FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL—AND HIS REASON SHOOK ME

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  MY TERMINALLY ILL DAUGHTER PUT ON GLOVES TO “SAVE” HER TOY—AND THEN SHE SAID SOMETHING THAT BROKE ME

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  MY BOYS SAID THEY WERE “READING THE NEWS”—BUT WHAT THEY FOUND IN THAT BOOK MADE ME FREEZE

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  I ALMOST LOST MY LIFE TO TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME—AND NO ONE BELIEVED ME AT FIRST