Growing up without a father was tough for him.“Growing up without fathers, it was a struggle,” he said.“I remember my dad was a teacher and we had the best summers.I remember him teaching me how to swim.That was the summer…
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Why the ‘Gaby’ song ‘Gabe’ is a feminist anthem
Growing up, Jillian Gaby was never sure how to express herself.“I didn’t know what to do with myself,” she said, “because I didn’t see myself as an object.”When her older sister was diagnosed with cancer in 2012, Jillians friends began…
‘They made me cry’: My mother cries over her daughter’s ‘captions’
Growing up in an Orthodox Jewish home in the Bronx, the first thing I noticed was the “captions” on the children’s books.They were the “craziest” ones.The kids, who were all boys, played with their fingers, and sometimes they used a…