"We laughed, I cried, but in the end, all that mattered was that my sister had the weekend she'd always dreamed of," writes Lizzie Hyman Lizzie Hyman is a Writer-Reporter for PEOPLE, where she ...

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Estrangement felt like a hole that was impossible to fill. The birth of my daughter provided the impetus to try. By Emily Schmall The woman in the vegan diner mentioned her thumbs. They looked like ...

Dear Eric: My sister (85) and I (80) have been estranged for about five years. My niece invited us for Thanksgiving dinner just before this fallout. She was also inviting relatives of her fiancé who ...

In 2020, right in the thick of the pandemic, I decided to put a tiny home in my backyard. At the time, I was operating several short-term rentals in Atlanta, including rooms within my three-bedroom ...

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Patrice Williams said they were getting ready to begin cutting her daughter's birthday cake when the gunfire began.