Finding Your Family – The New York Times

Who comes to New York City? The ambitious. The competitive. The desperate — to be famous, to be rich, to be beloved. But I’ve long thought that adopted New Yorkers are united by another quality, as well: Our desire to find a new family. Sometimes that family is a literal, traditional family. Just as often,…

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How to Apologize Like You Mean It

Most of us can remember receiving an unsatisfying apology. A friend of mine recently got a text message after a Bumble date stood her up: “Sry,” it read. (“He didn’t even spell out the whole word,” she told me.) When my kid was in preschool, an email arrived in my inbox. “Sorry your daughter was…

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