REDOX STORIES
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The Day My Daughter Turned 18, I Understood That I Had Done My Job.
The Morning of Her Eighteenth Birthday My daughter Ishika woke up on her eighteenth birthday at 7 AM because she has always woken up early, which is a quality she got from her father and which I have never fully...
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My Son Is Becoming Someone I Don't Fully Know Yet. I Gave Him a Gift That Said I'm Paying Attention.
The Boy I Knew and the Person I'm Meeting My son Aryan turned sixteen last March. I have known him for sixteen years. I have also, in a different and more recent sense, been getting to know him for about...
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She Knows Everything About Me. She Stayed Anyway.
What My Sister Knows My sister knows the combination to the lockbox where I keep my journals. She knows it because I told her, which means she is the only person in the world I trust with everything I've written...
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An Open Letter To My Brother On His Birthday (Which He Will Claim Is Unnecessary)
A Partial List of Things My Brother Has Done He told my crush in Class 9 that I had a poster of Shah Rukh Khan on my ceiling, which I did, but that was private information. He ate my portion...
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My Mother Has Been Saying "I'm Fine" Since 1987. I Finally Stopped Believing Her.
The Woman Who Ran on Cold Tea My mother's tea goes cold every morning. This is not a metaphor. It is a literal, observable, daily fact. She makes her morning chai at 6:45 AM — I have never in my...
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My Father Has Never Said "I Love You." Neither Have I. We Understood Each Other Anyway.
The Language My Father Speaks My father has never said "I love you" to me. Not once. Not at graduation, not at my wedding, not when I called him at midnight from a hospital corridor because something had gone wrong...