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I turned eighteen in a lifeboat off the coast of Portugal, watching the ship that was supposed to carry

Mara Delgadillo had worked the front desk at the Riverbend Athletic Club in Tulsa for six years before

Marion Whitfield used to say the same thing every time somebody asked how she ended up teaching chess

There's a woman buried in a modest cemetery outside Boston whose life reads like something too strange

The frijoles were the same ritual they'd been every Saturday since I was nine — pick out the pebbles

The mason jars sat in neat rows on Grandma Roseanne's cellar shelves, each one labeled in her careful

The Chevy Suburban idled outside the Wilshire ballroom while a valet in a maroon vest waved it toward

Marisol Vance almost didn't answer the phone. She was elbow-deep in bleach water, scrubbing a coffee

Fifty-one weeks a year, Marisol Guillén woke up before her alarm. On the fifty-second, the anniversary

The swimsuit was coral pink, with a little ruffle at the hip, and Nora Callahan, seventy-one years old