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My son needs braces. I had braces. He’s 15 and has very bad acne. I’m doing what I can to help him manage his skin, and it’s improving slowly. His dentist recommended braces, and I knew he’d need them ...

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My wife and I are both women in our late 30s. We have a 5-year-old daughter, and my wife is really struggling with how arbitrary and emotional small children are. For example, I was cooking dinner ...

Most of the units (including mine) surround a communal parking area with a parking spot for each unit. Several weeks after I moved in, some other tenants spent a Saturday grilling in the parking lot.

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My family lives in a town in which people living on its outskirts tend to be wealthier; the people living closer to downtown ...