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...days after I returned from winter break my freshman year, my mom gave birth to my twin siblings, Adam and Mariam. I was on speaker phone for the hours it took to choose their names. It’s an arduous process in a Lebanese family. Do you name after the grandfather? Which side? Have you slighted any uncles? Luckily, enough people have had children in my family that just about everyone over the age of 20 has a namesake or two (even...
...made my choices with the full knowledge that I was sacrificing time with my family for time for myself. Being the eldest of seven siblings means that I’ve been doing a lot of ignoring lately. But the nearly 20-year age gap between Adam and Mariam and me means that my absence over the past three years will have an even more negative impact on my relationships with them...
...dining room struggling to poop into her diaper. The polite yet constipated baby didn’t want to do the deed in front of the family. Adorable, non? The shitting business makes for good story-telling. When they were getting potty trained last year, Mariam would accompany Adam on his trips to the toilet. “It doesn’t work!” she said...
...have been there for a handful of the moments that will be retold about the twins for life. It was while I was home two years ago that we began noticing that Adam was referring to Mariam as ‘Adam.’ He thought they had the same name. Though he’s been corrected countless times by now, he still uses the single name for the both of them. I was also there the day that two-year-old Adam said ‘fuck’ to another little boy when, during a playdate...
...source also identified Tom D. Hadfield ’08 and Adam Goldenberg ’08 as a ticket for president and vice president. Both are active Crimson editors on the editorial board, and Hadfield took second place in last year’s UC election on a ticket with presidential candidate Magnus Grimeland...