Memoir Magazine

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Loving My Attachment Challenged Daughter by Bari Benjamin

Posted on January 30, 2019

Liliya had been abandoned at six months by her birth mom, left in a baby carriage in a train station in Moscow. The Russian police took her to an orphanage wher...

3 Minute Read/Childhood/Family/Funny/Identity/Literature/nonfiction/Race Matters/Society

Lessons Learned by Diane Malk

Posted on September 20, 2018

“there’s no such thing as the Easter Bunny and there’s no Santa Claus—remember, we’re Jewish!”

15 Minute Read/Family/Literature/nonfiction/On Memory/personal essay

Under Construction By Anthony D’Aries

Posted on February 21, 2018

I sometimes wonder if I’d given Otis a different name, something like Bronson or Butch, he’d have been born with more brawn than soul. Otis is only two, for Chr...