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Baby Swap
We’ve all heard stories about babies who were switched at birth. When I was younger, it was obvious that I was very different from my siblings, so that…
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Nancy Drew Meets Fight Club
Whodunit?! Kids love solving mysteries, and there’s no shortage of teenage and kid crime solvers in books and on television: Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, the Scooby Doo…
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There’s No Accounting for Taste
Attraction is subjective. I recently had a conversation with my teenage daughter about singers and actors who I liked when I was young. I was (and still am)…
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Who’s Your Ride-or-Die?
Parents will do just about anything for their kids. There are exceptions, of course. We’ve all heard horror stories and seen things on social media with a comment…
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Do You Believe in Mary Worth?
Chicagoland is a great place to looks for ghosts and ghost stories—the site of the Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre, the site of the SS Eastland disaster on the…
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The Power Trip of Playing God
Back in 1989, a company called Maxis released a PC game called Sim City. Players of the game act as the mayor of a simulated city (thus the…