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Bring Back The Trains
I had the New York City subway map memorized by the time I was four years old. I remember how I loved the spaghetti-like interconnections that the brightly colored lines made and how I would pore over my dad’s collections of old maps for hours and hours. I remember riding with my mom to the…
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The Stigma Against Mental Illness
BY MIRANDA KROEGER Happiness is a choice.” But what happens if, no matter how hard you try, your “choice” to be happy still doesn’t make you happy? Often, people struggling with depression, anxiety, an eating disorder, or other men- tal illnesses are made to feel that their con- dition stems from personal failing: if they…
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