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Nine months lost

Today is my nine-month anniversary. This is a different kind of anniversary, one of a journey. My journey will never end as long as I live, and I will always remember that life taken away.On Feb.

NEWS | 11/14/2007

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God, I'm an ingrate!

Princeton refocuses the peculiar, teaspoon-sized details that compose your idea of home: what your laundry smells like coming out of the dryer, whether or not you put your elbows on the table during dinner and the last person you say goodnight to before falling asleep.

NEWS | 11/14/2007

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Cornbread-Pecan-Sausage Stuffing

Ingredients:2 cups chopped onion 1 1/2 cups chopped celery stalks 1 pound sweet Italian sausage 5 cups crumbled yellow cornbread 1 cup lightly packed crumbs/cubes of fresh homemade-type lightweight white bread 2 eggs lightly beaten 2-3 tablespoons fresh sage, chopped 1/2 cup raisins soaked in sherry 3/4 cup chopped pecans 1 stick melted butter, salt and freshly ground pepper Directions:- Break up sausage meat and saute in frying pan (until color changes from reddish to gray). - Move into a large bowl. - In residual fat, saute onions until tender. - Add celery and saute for two more minutes. - Blend in the onions and celery with the sausage meat. - Add crumbled cornbread, white bread, eggs, sage, raison, and pecans. - Fold in melted butter. - Add salt and pepper to taste. - Bake ? do not stuff the bird ? at 350 degrees for 30-40 minutes until lightly browned.

NEWS | 11/14/2007

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Prospect gets into the holiday spirit

In my house, we absolutely cannot sit down to Thanksgiving dinner without my dad's "special" grape juice ? two parts apple to one part Welch's grape (yes, it must be Welch's and yes, he can tell the difference). A friend of mine from home has another interesting tradition: Thanksgiving dinner at his house consists of seven different soup courses.

NEWS | 11/14/2007

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Cheese Grits

Ingredients:1 cup grits 3/4 jar Cheez Whiz 1/2 cup butter 2 eggs 1/2 cup milk 2 tablespoons liquid smoke Directions:- Cook the grits in four cups boiling water with one teaspoon salt for about three to five minutes. - Melt the butter and the cheese together, being careful not to burn either. - Beat the eggs and the milk together. - Add the eggs, milk, butter, cheese and liquid smoke to the grits. - Pour it all into a casserole. - Bake at 350 degrees for about 50 minutes.

NEWS | 11/14/2007

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I went to an all-female school

But how will the girls join the cheerleading squad if there's no football team?"Surprisingly, this was the question my mother encountered more than any other when she informed friends that her daughters would be attending the all-girls Hockaday School in Dallas, Texas.

NEWS | 11/07/2007

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Male? Female? Not me.

Transgender? Trans-gender? Trans-what? Okay. Let's break this down, so that the next time we meet, we won't have to spend a half-hour over an 800-calorie coffee drink dissecting the particulars of language and the politics of just trying to get through the day.

NEWS | 11/07/2007

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Show some decency, man!

At a recent dinner at Colonial Club, I engaged in acts so vile, so reprehensible and so positively unacceptable in the high society of the Street that I can only describe them in print with the vaguest of terms.

NEWS | 11/07/2007