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The Stories We Tell, and the Secrets We Keep

In the documentary "Stories We Tell," director and actress Sarah Polley discovers that what she thought she knew about her mother, an actress who died when Polley was eleven, has only a glancing relationship with the truth.
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Tail-Wagging Reads: 6 Biographies and Memoirs for Dog Lovers

In A Dog Walks into a Nursing Home, writer Sue Halpern describes what happens when she decides to train her Labradoodle, Pransky, as a therapy dog, and take him into a public nursing home to work with the elderly residents. For more adventures in canine companionship, check out these books.
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Tales from Hollywood’s Golden Age: On the Anniversary of the Oscars

On May 16, 1929, in the Blossom Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, a tradition was born: the Academy Awards ceremony, honoring the previous years’ best films, directors, and actors. Those early years of experiment and excess generated some of the all-time great life stories; here are our picks for...
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Little Do We Know: 5 Myths About Sociopathy, Debunked

M.E. Thomas is the author behind Confessions of a Sociopath, a psychological study of diagnosed sociopaths by none other than a diagnosed sociopath. Here she presents us with five commonly held misconceptions of what sociopathy is about, and she proceeds to debunk each myth
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