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Markos, go get some sleep

Dear Markos: We know that this has been an eventful time for you. After all, it’s not every day that a man becomes a father. This week you and your wife and son have experienced the joy of welcoming a beautiful baby girl into the world and into the loving embrace of your family. [...]

Marine Corps calling

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The caller ID reads “US MARINE CORPS”.

I reach for the phone, and in the fraction of a second it takes for the words “US MARINE CORPS” to register in my brain, I become every mother who has ever existed. Or at least every mother who’s ever existed since that first fateful day [...]