role-reversal
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My Father – Part I: Learning to Be the Adult
Seven years of studying cancer in an American lab did not prepare me to face the real deal when it hit my father – thrice. His decades of smoking first led to a diagnosis of bladder cancer. It was minor and he recovered from the surgery, only to develop an aggressive laryngeal cancer less than…
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When Do You Become A Parent?
When do you become a parent? When you give birth? When you raise a child? There are other ways of becoming a parent too. When you mentor someone at work. When you become a pet parent. When you nurture young minds in school. Or it may just come up on you unnoticed. Like it did…