personal identity

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    The Youngest Daughter and the Place We Learned to Occupy

    There are places we occupy long before we understand what they mean. Being the youngest daughter is one of them: a family role that grows with us, even as our identity begins to take a different shape.

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    Who Remains When the Title Is Gone

    Life’s most important transitions rarely force us to ask what comes next. They force us to ask who we are when the thing that defined us for years is no longer there.