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...affection before they're ready to date, Radio Disney offers a transitional experience for kids eager to explore the world of teen music but not ready for the hard-core rap and rock on other stations. The network's "lyrically screened" songs--hits by such nonthreatening acts as Aaron Carter and Mandy Moore--are acceptable to both parents and kids. "I listen because they play the songs I like and to find out what new artists are coming out," says Raven Henderson, 11, of Brooklyn...
Around the time of the New York Woman launch, her husband of 17 years, Malcolm Carter, announced he was gay. "Everything inside me felt berserk," she writes. "Blown to pieces. I was gasping for breath, swimming in air. I had crazy thoughts: I'll call my mother, she'll talk him out of this...
...Again, Carter threw her energies into the office. That's where she was a few months later when her marketing director relayed an emergency phone message: "Betsy, your house burned down!" Her weekend home in upstate New York was a total loss in a fire begun by an arsonist. Writes Carter: "Putting one foot in front of the other: I was getting very good at that. Understanding the pattern and meaning of what happened over the past couple of years was harder. I'd lost my teeth, my ability to bear children [because of an earlier hysterectomy], my husband...
...then, Carter was a natural candidate for therapy. When normal psychiatric techniques failed, her psychiatrist, Phoebe Slom, suggested that Carter have an exorcism. "I suspect that in your other life, you were an evil person," she told Carter. "I think you did a lot of very bad things, and now you're being repaid for them in this lifetime." That was the end of Slom, although Carter herself had begun to wonder whether she was being pursued by some dark force. Her friends had begun calling her nicknames like Bloody Mary and Typhoid Annie. When Carter started dating again, however...
...Carter has now been married to Hoenig for 10 years, and is grateful to be looking at these events in the rear-view mirror. Does she have advice for others on coping with adversity? "I was not always cheerful," she admits. "Be easy on yourself. The last thing you need is that inner judge saying you shouldn't be losing control that way, why are you crying that much?" She adds, "One of the things that I did, and do, is share my bad news with everyone as fast as I can. I don't keep things to myself. Suddenly...