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By Katia Hetter, Special to CNN (CNN) — I have no idea why my 3-year-old wants to be a cowboy for Halloween this year, because she won’t tell me. That’s OK. I don’t need to know her reasoning to make it happen. Thanks to her outdoorsy grandparents who live in [...] By Katia Hetter, Special to CNN (CNN) — Olivia Nakamura can still remember the neighbor who always hosted a barbecue in his front yard for his son’s birthday party. He’d invite all the kids on their suburban Seattle block, except her son and the Asian-American children who lived there. “I [...] By Katia Hetter, Special to CNN (CNN) — Colin Ryan was attending his second day of high school on September 11, 2001, when an airplane crashed into the World Trade Center’s north tower. Ryan, then 14, received a note in school saying his father, John, who worked on the 89th [...] By Katia Hetter, Special to CNN CNN) — While the Bible Belt is known for its devotion to traditional values, Southerners don’t do so well on one key family value: They are more likely to get divorced than people living in the Northeast. Southern men and women had higher rates of divorce [...] By Katia Hetter, Special to CNN (CNN) — Katy Chamberlin says she’s a better driver than most people she sees on the road. The San Francisco human resources specialist believes she’s more observant than the average driver, noting that she’s never caused a traffic accident, but has been rear-ended twice by [...] By Katia Hetter, Special to CNN (CNN) — A glance at teen stars Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber’s letters to their younger selves makes one thing clear: their handwriting is terrible. In the letters, part of the Habbo Celebrity “Advice to My Teenage Self” book, the content is messy and their [...] By Katia Hetter, Special to CNN (CNN) — When Howard Chiou went to Taiwan for his grandmother’s funeral, he had another dead person on his mind — the cadaver he was dissecting in his anatomy class. The Emory University medical student kept dreaming about who this dead man might have been [...] By Katia Hetter, Special to CNN (CNN) — “I can’t watch TV without my pajamas!” I should be reading the last of three bedtime stories to my 3-year-old before I sing the three songs that usually send her to sleepyland. No more than three. That’s the deal. But I have to make [...] By Katia Hetter, Special to CNN (CNN) — Americans snicker over the sordid details of former Rep. Anthony Weiner’s Internet escapades. But they pity his wife, Huma Abedin. They see an accomplished and beautiful woman betrayed by her husband’s Twitter posts. And she’s pregnant? The details just get worse and worse. Abedin [...] By Katia Hetter, Special to CNN (CNN) — “Mama, put the phone AWAY.” That’s my kid talking to me, and she’s only 3. She’s scolding me, but she’s scolding you, too. So listen up. I understand your work pays the bills and you only have time to connect to people through Tweeting your mood or [...] |
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