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(This piece by Suzanne Braun Levine, the first editor of Ms. magazine, first appeared in the Huffington Post on Oct. 7, 2014. Reposted by permission of the author.) When we were cleaning out my mother's home of 60 years, I found an envelope in the handwriting of my father who had died 30 years earlier. It said, "to be opened in case of my death abroad." He traveled a lot and alone, so I could understand his concern that his wishes under those circumstances be known. The letter is ver ...

Early last spring a little boy led his family out of their cocoon/cave/house on a walk up a forest-flanked road. He was seven then. He's seven now, but the creature that twirled and danced up a road glittering with magic spring sunlight hitting millions of melted droplets on leaves and twigs is no longer with us. That person found magic swords everywhere we looked. He found quests to complete and saved his mom and dad from their winter doldrums. On the way back, the boy and his family not ...