childhood

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You write about how you hate feelings, but also movingly about loved ones’ health scares and your childhood.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026

Esme is still technically classed as in heart failure and takes medication to manage her condition but is non-symptomatic and enjoys a normal childhood, Emily said.

From BBC • May 23, 2026

A taste of New England in West Hollywood, it quickly became known for fried clams and chowders harkening to Cimarusti’s Rhode Island childhood and plump lobster rolls filled with never-frozen lobster.

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2026

I know for a fact that I am far from alone among baby boomers in having spent a great deal of my childhood and teenage years absorbing baseball lore.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

The sight of a stern judge demanding a book from him had been the stuff of his nightmares since childhood.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood