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Europe once fought a war for 100 years. For the first 100 days
of the new Republican-controlled Congress, another war took place
on Capitol Hill, and now promises to continue.
'Yesterday, it was like fire on glass," says Mary Etta of
the sunrise we missed. We had missed them all.
"A group of women who have had abortions will be meeting" read the sign on the women's room wall. Immediately I knew I wanted to go. But why? I had never had an abortion.
I remember the moment when, as a new apprentice in a retreat center's
vegetarian kitchen, I spotted the shelf of nuts in the storeroom.
Fifty-pound boxes of walnut pieces, pecan halves, almonds
About five years ago, when my husband and I were hosting a gathering from our parish, a member of the group made a comment that caused me to flush with humiliation and anger.
Recently, some spots on my face were diagnosed not as the distinctive
markings of a rare intellect-which I had assumed them to be-but
as a precancerous skin malady.
