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• Get tickets for the 2018 Brooklyn Baby and Family Expo

  09-04-2018 22:13
  Join A Child Grows in Brooklyn for their 6th Annual Brooklyn Baby & Family Expo, April 22, 2018, from 11am to 3:30pm at 501 Union.
  This family-friendly event is designed for expectant, new and seasoned parents with kids up to age 8. There will be lots to do, samples, gifts, food and experts at the ready to answer your parenting questions. (See the full lineup below.)
  Tickets start at $10, and premium attendees can choose from the expecting/new baby gift bag or the young
  
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• Review: ‘Cringeworthy: A Theory of Awkwardness’

  09-04-2018 17:39
  Cringeworthy: A Theory of AwkwardnessMelissa DahlPortfolio2018
  Why is it that everything I have done up to this moment makes me cringe with embarrassment? I’m often calling people by the wrong name, waving to strangers that I think I know, or walking into the wrong restroom. Moments come back to me on a daily basis (“cringe attacks”) that make me grimace and say out loud “Oh my god, why did I do that?” Melissa Dahl, the cofounder of New York magazine’s Science
  
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• Review: ‘The Female Persuasion’

  09-04-2018 17:28
  The Female PersuasionMeg WolitzerRiverhead Books, 2018
  There are a lot of things that fall into place for Greer Kadetsky in Meg Wolitzer’s new novel, The Female Persuasion. After a brief boomerang to her childhood home post-college, she lands her first, real job by pulling a business card out of her figurative back pocket. A prominent, Gloria Steinem-esque feminist, Faith Frank, handed it to Greer after a chance encounter during her freshman year at college, and Greer holds onto it until s
  
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