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November 24, 2020 Acceptance / Family / Identity / Sexuality

Opening Up to Family

By Emma Carr This is Joshua Ahearn’s story. My family has always been picture perfect; we’re the type to host

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November 12, 2020 Acceptance / Healing / Identity

Hair, Wigs, Embracing Baldness

By Brynn Wooten This is Reece Wooten’s story. I got my first bald spot when I was 14 years old,

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Four teenagers holding a white and blue banner sign that reads "Belize Christian Academy" and has cross and symbol on it. Center is a young woman of Asian heritage.
October 29, 2020 Age / Community stories

Taiwan, Belize, Mexico, and Back

By Chunchi Tseng This is Vivian Hsu’s story. I was born and raised in Taipei, Taiwan, but I don’t have

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October 8, 2020 Community stories / Family / Rural / Veterans

Rural Michigan, Pearl Harbor, Scarlet Fever

By Annie Vokes To begin, I really don’t consider my story to be all that exciting or above average, but

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September 30, 2020 Community stories / Ethnicity / Identity / Immigration

Childhood in the Mountains Before the Yugoslav War

By Adriana Ivezaj Growing up I lived in a country called Yugoslavia, in a popular tourist city named Podgorica. Our

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September 3, 2020 Acceptance / Community stories / Family / Religion / Suburban

Full House, Full Life

By Sarah Hill A large, majestic house on a 10-acre plot of land in Rochester Hills, Michigan, is where Laura

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August 14, 2020 Community stories / Immigration

Starting Something New from Puerto Rico

By Alexandra Ehms Maria Eugenia Margarita Patricia Lopez-Duprey Ehms has gone through a journey. She transitioned from life in Puerto

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August 7, 2020 Acceptance / Ethnicity / Identity / Race / Religion / Suburban

Culture and Being Biracial

By Adam Conigliaro In Southeast Michigan, a biracial American man faces discrimination from his extended family for his skin pigmentation.

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July 21, 2020 Community stories / Family / Healing / Immigration / Religion / Suburban

Mexican, Spanish, Super Mexican…

By Page Gardner Vanessa Rodriguez showed me around her home, pointing at different decor and specifying, “this is Mexican,” “this

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July 14, 2020 Community stories / Family / Healing / Immigration

“People Die”: Memories of War

By Nicole Morsfield Immigration is no singular experience. To some, it’s carrying baskets of clothing up and down 30 floors

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