Category: Feature Stories
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Most everyone has heard some version of the old nursery rhyme that has Lizzie Borden giving her mother “40 whacks” with an ax, and her father, one more than that. Much like the real-life case itself, it’s withstood the test of time. Whether it’s because the murders of Andrew and Abby Borden were so gruesome…
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Looking like Sean Connery cut from an old Bond film, a man rides a motorcycle in a framed, black-and-white photograph that hangs on the wall. It’s retro and cool in an “Easy Rider”-meets-the-Andrews Sisters sort of way. “That’s my father on the motorcycle, in 1966, on Normandy Beach,” explains designer Samantha Thomas, before pointing to…
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It’s 10 a.m. on a Saturday morning and I’m on my hands and knees, crawling across a sea of clothes to reach a Harvard sweatshirt tangled between a striped sweater and pink fleece jacket. After separating it from the pile, I know I’ve scored and stuff it into my bag. A few feet away I…
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Many of us can remember celebrating our 16th birthdays filing paperwork at the Department of Motor Vehicles and leaving with our licenses — or, at the very least, learners’ permits. Those days, however, may well be over. While there are still plenty of teens spending their birthdays at the DMV, an ever-increasing number of them…
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It was just another routine appointment with her gynecologist, until the doctor asked Sharon Flannery how long she’d had the lump in her breast. The West Hartford resident had been good about keeping up with her regular exams and yearly mammograms, so she was surprised. Flannery had no idea it was there. Not long after,…
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If you’re like most people, you probably keep track of your store receipts along with other important documents like purchase invoices or your car’s service records, just in case. But what about your medical and health records? Are you keeping track of those? Probably not, said Mark Laudenberger, director of health information management at Middlesex…
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NEW YORK CITY — Frances Clift always dreamed of finding true love in a coffee shop. On a Saturday afternoon in March, her wish came true when she met Sherry. “It was something magical,” she said. “Something you can only imagine happening to you in New York. You walk into a café with the intention…
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Walter Block can’t talk about his college graduation without becoming emotional. When he recalls the moment he collected his diploma during UConn’s commencement ceremonies in Storrs last spring, he is reduced to tears. “There must have been 8,000 people there,” the Stamford resident said, “and when they called out my name, it seemed as though…
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The late British actor and comedian Norman Wisdom perhaps said it best: “As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes … and I can’t remember the other two.” It’s an amusing quote, but one that also hits home for any number of older adults who, along with needing reading glasses…
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It’s lunchtime on a warm day and “Abby” is seated in a booth at an upscale West Hartford restaurant. She scans the menu for dishes she hasn’t already tried before a waiter, who has no idea that she’s anything but a casual diner, comes by to take her order. Like many of her restaurant visits,…
Sarah Lemire 