• Her Story, My Memory: Another 9/11 Loss

  Posted Friday, September 11, 2009 5:41 PM | By Samantha Henig
  
  
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  A post from DoubleX writer KJ Dell'Antonia:

  Alissa Torres lived down the block from me on 9/11. We were working on being acquaintances. We were meant to turn into friends. Her husband worked in the wrong tall building; he died, mine didn't. There might be budding friendships that could survive that—but ours wasn't one of them ... (Read more in Double X.)

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• Mother's Day is For the Motherless Too

  Posted Sunday, May 10, 2009 2:52 AM | By Marjorie Valbrun
  
  
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  Meghan, I so feel your pain about being motherless on Mother's Day. I lost my mother last October and have felt unmoored ever since. Losing my mother was like losing my sense of place in the world; the sense that I belonged to this one person in way that I could never belong to anyone else.

  Still, instead of trying to avoid everything Mother's Day-related, I planned to embrace the day and comfort myself with good memories of good times with my mother... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website, DoubleX.com!)

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