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Parents
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Family Stories
Waiting for the angels, chopping the head off a chicken, building a house — twice
June 1979Sy Safransky’s Notebook
January 1979
Fathers
To let our parents be, to accept them as people, human and therefore imperfect, rather than as gods — that is the challenge.
January 1979Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
Angel At The Gate
In the year I was sixteen, on the first day of that new year, my father died, and since that time I have longed hopelessly for a paradise that will never return.
December 1978Readers Write
Grandparents
A print that someone had jabbed holes where the eyes had been, The Secret Garden where the snow-drops bloomed, a pair of tweezers thrust into a hand
October 1978
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