EST. 2026
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Vol. I / No. 1799
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Family

Family Aug 6, 2026

Her mother has dementia. She has been writing weekly letters to the version of her mother who is no longer available, for nine years.

A woman in Ann Arbor has, for the past nine years, been quietly writing weekly letters to the specific version of her mother that her mother's dementia has taken. Her mother is still alive. She has…
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Family Jul 24, 2026

Her brother died seventeen years ago. She has been maintaining his woodworking shop every week since.

A woman in Duluth has, for the past seventeen years, been quietly maintaining her late brother's small woodworking shop in the garage of the house she inherited from their parents. She has not, in the seventeen…
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Family Jul 17, 2026

Her grandmother updated her will every year for forty-one years. She left her granddaughter the same specific item every time.

A woman in Nashville has spent nine months trying to understand why her grandmother, in forty-one annual will updates, left her the same specific unremarkable kitchen item every time. The item is a small wooden lemon…
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