Chanel Dubofsky // Brooklyn, NY The author and her mother. Throughout my childhood and adolescent years, there was this one…

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Jeremy Borovitz // Kiev, Ukraine Someone was banging on my window. It was seven in the morning on an early…

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David Gadd // Los Angeles, CA As a teenager in the mid-1930s, my late father worked in a small grocery…