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...family support that got Sharon Carter safely though her bout with early puberty. "I am really very excitable," says her mom, "and I had to get all that under control and make her feel that what she was going through was normal." The result, says Sharon: "I don't remember much about all that. I couldn't go swimming when I had my period. And I still can't, and I love to swim. That's the only difference it made with...
Meanwhile, down in the valley, the newly widowed Lusa Maluf Landowski--"My mom's parents were Palestinians, and my dad's were Jews from Poland"--struggles with the farm her husband has left her and tries to think of something profitable to grow besides tobacco. She complains to a sister-in-law, "We're sitting on some of the richest dirt on this planet, and I'm going to grow drugs instead of food?" And on farms nearby, Garnett Walker III, nearly 80, a widower for eight years, maintains a long-running battle with his neighbor Nannie Rawley, 75, over...
...only was I the youngest person in the audience, but my mom was the second youngest. Do you find yourself having to talk loudly during performances...
...anxiety begins when the girls are about eight years old. "Did you notice so-and-so is developing?" one mom whispers to another as they scan their daughters' classmates for signs of breast buds--and reassurance that their own girls are perfectly normal. Maybe it's time for Judy Blume to write a sequel to her 1970 classic about training bras and first periods. She could call it Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret's Mother...
...Texas he tried for huge, sweeping tax reform, but when only half of it passed, he said he was fine with that. So which part of his current tax plan is he willing to compromise over, the part his party donors expect or the part that $22,000 mom is counting on? Who's winking at whom? Whose fingers are crossed...