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Stories with keyword: baby

Missing

Sumer lives with her husband and three kids in an old house in Iowa. During the hot summers, the kids often sleep in their parents’ room because it has the only air conditioner. One night, Sumer and her husband wake … Continue reading →

Keywords baby, bed, Best of RISK!, blanket, canine unit, children, community, disappearance, gratitude., heat, Iowa, kids, Live story, mattress, missing, missing child, neighborhood, neighbors, panic, police, Richmond, search search party, sleep, summer, terror, VA, Virginia

Butterfly

Susanne is the mother of two kids, Tori and Liam, when she and her husband decide to have a third. After four miscarriages that keep Susanne pregnant for a year with no resulting baby, she finally sustains a pregnancy all … Continue reading →

Keywords babies, baby, baby loss, butterflies, butterfly, delivery, failed, grief, heartbeat, IN, Indiana, Indianapolis, infant loss, Live story, miscarriage, mother, mourning, pregnancy, stillbirth, ultrasound

For the Love of Nubbins

Hired to sell very expensive, real-looking (and feeling) baby dolls for the holiday season at downtown NYC’s FAO Schwartz, Elna is stunned to observe how seriously the wealthy shoppers take these doll “adoptions,” and how their status and privilege comes … Continue reading →

Keywords adoption, African American, Asian, attachment, baby, black, bond, certificate, Christmas, color, doll, ethnic, ethnicity, FAO Schwartz, floppy, gifts, holiday, infant, Latinx, Live, Nubbins, nursery, NYC, POC, presents, realistic, shopping, skin color, staff pick, tone, weighted, white

Both Sides Now

Tara grew up a working class kid in Queens, dividing her time between her divorced parents — one side Italian, one side Irish. She had tough street smarts, and, at the same time, a secret love for literature, especially Shakespeare. … Continue reading →

Keywords accent, adjective, baby, college, divorce, dyke, education, gay, girlfriend, glbtqia, grammar, intelligence, IQ, Irish, Italian, King Lear, lesbian, Lesbian storyteller, literacy, Manhattan, money, New York, New York City, pregnant, pregnant teen, Queens, queer, Radio, scrappy, self-esteem, Shakespeare, smart, stereotypes, street smart, upper-class, working class, writer

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