Word: birthdaying
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...just as the library makes its first real structural replacements since its grand opening, anniversary festivities have stirred memories to life as Lamont celebrates its 50th birthday...
Susan Dubuque of Richmond, Va., is convinced of the benefits. Her son Nick went through "seven years of testing hell." At seven, ADHD was diagnosed and he was put on Ritalin. "When he was 10 years old, he didn't want a birthday party because he just couldn't deal with it," she recalls. Then, his mother says, Nick "bottomed out and became suicidal, and one day I found him in a closet with a toy gun pointed at his head, and he said, 'If this was real, I'd use it.'" The next day she saw a psychologist...
...birthday, SHIRLEY JONES' husband Marty Ingels wanted to give his wife a statue of herself in her hometown of Smithton, Pa. However, Ingels and the town elders could not agree on a suitable location. "What started out to be a lovely, joyous thing has become Vietnam, Hiroshima," said Ingels...
Brendel began taking piano lessons when he was six, but he was not a prodigy. He didn't have a steady teacher, or attend a prestigious music conservatory, or possess the kind of breathtaking technical virtuosity that instantly seduces listeners. "After my 16th birthday, I did not have a teacher," he says. "I only went to two or three master classes. So it was a slower development, but it was my own...I'm used to trying to find things out for myself...
...weeks ago, I went out to dinner with a large group of my classmates. The occasion was a birthday, thus free from the officially-mandated nostalgia of Senior events, and it was far enough away from graduation that we could enjoy ourselves without the burdens of obligatory remembering. All of us were having a great time, eating and talking and laughing. But then a strange thing happened to me. I gazed down the long table, and in a flash of unexpected vision, I suddenly saw all of my friends old, very...