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You’d be hard pressed to find someone who hasn’t heard about the Newtown shooting. On December 14, 2012, 20-year-old Adam Lanza entered Sandy Hook Elementary School and shot and killed 20 children and six teachers before taking his own life. It is a gruesome tale that has induced grief and outrage on a national level.
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On the last full day of my teaching career, as my students studied for their finals, I overheard a conversation between two freshman girls that still haunts me. One asked the other, “How many different guys do you think you can have kids with before it’s weird? Like 3 or 4?” Heartbroken, I asked these girls if they wouldn’t rather wait to have kids until marrying a man who would help ...
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When I was kid, if you were curious about something too embarrassing to ask about, there was only one place to go: World Book Encyclopedia. Those sweet alphabetized mountains of illustrated knowledge sat authoritatively on the shelves in our family room. They beckoned to my curious third-grade mind, calling out proudly that they had all the information on the female anatomy that so mystified me. ...
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When I was a boy, my dad asked me, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” To which I frankly answered (quite adorably no doubt), “A daddy.” When my relentlessly realistic dad informed me that no one would pay me to be a father, I told him that I would gladly pay myself.
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