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...FIRST COUSIN ONCE REMOVED: MONEY, MADNESS AND THE FAMILY OF ROBERT LOWELL...
...neurotic, but neurotic's good!" quips Sarah Payne Stuart's family psychiatrist in Stuart's My First Cousin Once Removed, a painfully funny and poignant memoir about life in the Boston Brahmin Lowell clan (known best as a family running short on both money and sanity). The book centers specifically on the neurotic and manic depressive genius of Robert Lowell, the Pulitzer Prize-winning confessional poet-cum-activist and titular "first cousin" of the author's mother (hence the author is "removed" from him by one generation). Sarah Payne Stuart '73 treats "Bobby" (as the family called Robert Lowell...
...Harvard teaches you how to think and then youcan do anything," said Daniel A. Cousin '00, whoanticipates only one change. "After that, it'slike career plasticity...
...used to want to be an Indian and a streetperformer," said Cousin, who plans on attendingmedical school. "That will have to be in additionto being a doctor...
...Seven years later, she met and married Donny's father; the marriage lasted 11 years. Donny, now 11, lives in a Randallstown, Md., town house with his mother, his half sister Dawn, 25, and Dawn's child Crystal, 7. Five years ago, the family also took in Donny's cousin Garland, 17, who was struggling with family problems...