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  mother-daughter relationships: then and now

  Posted on November 7, 2011 by nikkimeredith in family, Mother-Daughter Relationships, odds and sods.

  Image via Couture Allure Easter Sunday. I’m 10 years old.  While other families are attending Easter sunrise services at the Hollywood Bowl, my family is in my father’s Buick heading to Rand’s Roundup in Hollywood – a restaurant billed as an urban chuck wagon.    I’m clutching my Easter basket – my brother is 14 and […]

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  did not disconnect: the permanence of an ex-spouse

  Posted on October 18, 2011 by nikkimeredith in dating and breakups, family.

  I had an uncle Danny that I never met. He died before I was born but I saw photos of him in his Navy uniform. He was boyish and handsome and, to the extent that a child can mourn someone she never met, I mourned him. Or, to be precise, I mourned the idea of […]

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