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Amazon One Medical Health Care

Attention, Amazon shoppers: You can now buy health care services

By Joey Solitro, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance | December 4, 2023
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54-Year-Old Mother Wants Another Child

Despite pushback from the rest of the family

December 1, 2023
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Dealing with Unwanted Weight Loss Compliments

Another good old Southern comeback besides ‘bless her heart’

By Amy Dickinson | November 24, 2023
A sad corgi, for an article that pets grieve too. Image by Irina Mescheryakova
Cathy M Rosenthal

Pets Grieve, Too

Experiencing the loss of a companion

By Cathy M. Rosenthal | November 20, 2023
A loving couple in an embrace, for an article on a couple who was disappointed in a narcissistic friend and wonders if the behavior is a friendship-ender. Image by Yuri Arcurs
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Narcissistic Behavior May Be a Friendship-Ender

‘Are we unreasonable for feeling this way?’

By Amy Dickinson | November 17, 2023
two women outside, engaged in conversation: insensitive friends gossiping to each other.
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Insensitive Friends Are Driving Her Nuts

She wonders how to move past their disrespectful actions

By Amy Dickinson | November 10, 2023
teenager at the Doncaster Pride Festival in 2017 - image by Shauntaylorhome. Article: Is it OK to ask teenagers about their romantic relationships while assuming they are straight? Or is that innocent question harmful?
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Grandmom’s Innocent Question May Be Harmful

Is it OK to assume a teenager is straight?

By Amy Dickinson | November 3, 2023
A couple kissing tenderly. By motortion. For article on a widower in love with his sister-in-law.
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Widower in Love with Sister-in-Law

But they fear family members’ reactions

By Amy Dickinson | October 27, 2023
three seniors doing yoga by a tropical-theme pool, by Robert Kneschke. For article on wellness resorts
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Wellness Resorts Offer Renewal from Head to Toe

When you want your vacation to go deeper

By Emma Patch, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance | October 20, 2023
A man on phone outside, for article on a clueless silver widower. Image by Andrei Zastrozhnov
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Clueless Silver Widower

His lack of experience ‘wooing and flirting’ leave him stranded

By Amy Dickinson | October 20, 2023

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