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Note: This post is dedicated to Martin. Happy sixth year anniversary. Three failed marriages, two miracle children. Did I learn anything? Here’s what I learned about what marriage means to me, making every single mistake in the book and then some. Marriage, or a committed relationship, is a pledge of personal responsibility. You make a [...]

I loved everything about being a Friendly Ice Cream waitress. In 1974-1975, when I worked at the Great Neck, NY store pictured above, the original gray uniforms were still in use. I loved bleaching and ironing the white ruffled apron, taking care to separate and smooth each ruffle slowly with the iron tip. I applied [...]

Note: a reader asked me to fill in the time between this post and this post. Here is the first part. I knew something was wrong the moment I approached the house early on a Sunday morning in June 1974, not long after completing the tenth grade, when I was sixteen. I had spent the [...]