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Last year I went to Chuck E. Cheese’s for a friend’s 20th birthday. Looking back, a few things stand out in my mind. One is how sick I felt crawling through a maze of plastic tunnels after eating five slices of cake and drinking a liter of orange soda; my knees hurt, my back ached, and I felt lost and scared as the sight of two third-graders in Osh-Kosh-B’gosh barreled down on me and caused me to throw up a little bit in my mouth. The other thing...
...restaurants for a table big enough to fit her nonexistent companions. Another little girl's imaginary friend was so ill the child wouldn't leave her unsupervised at home. Taylor's advice is to try to find solutions within the boundaries of a child's fantasy. To handle the sick friend, for example, the parents created another imaginary friend specifically to be a caretaker...
Fadi Skieker, a student at Emerson College, said Vaghar told her that her mother was sick and her father was dead; Vanderzee said that he was also told that her father had died. And one woman affiliated with HMS, who wished to remain anonymous, said that Vaghar told her that her father had Parkinson’s Disease...
...added that the study does not ignore this issue, and acknowledged that many families faced a “one-two punch: the breadwinner got sick, then the medical bills started to accrue...
...leads her customers to a back alley where a woman in a baseball cap opens several plastic bags, revealing four live chickens. For $2.50, the woman?who refuses to give her name?grabs a bird and slits its throat, letting the blood drain onto a tray. "It's only sick chickens that are dangerous," she says. "This one is alive, so it's O.K." (Not true: infected birds can sometimes spread the disease before showing symptoms...