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Dear Charlie, One Year Later

By: Skylar Ribotsky Dear Charlie, It was an ordinary Wednesday at my first job out of college. I saw the first notification with your name out of the corner of my glasses, but I knew your campus tour was starting, so I kept working. Then another appeared: a text from my boyfriend, I saw your…

When Did We Stop Noticing Each Other?

What a Night at a Sporting Event Says About Attention, Courtesy, and a Generation More Interested in Being Seen Than Seeing By Corey Ribotsky I am writing this while sitting at a sporting event. Like everyone else here, we paid for a seat because we came to watch the game. So did the people sitting…

The Greatest Responsibility We Will Ever Be Entrusted With

This afternoon I said goodbye to my best dog friend. His name was Hollywood, a little Havanese who shared my life for fifteen and a half years. Like so many people who have had the privilege of loving a dog, I believed that I had spent those years taking care of him. I fed him,…

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Two Generations, One Country. Thousands of Questions – And a few Answers.

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