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Can city living affect you?

Have you ever wished you could live in a quiet peaceful place somewhere in the country? Because city living is just too stressful? Studies back up exactly how you feel. Brain imaging studies have found that living in a city or growing up in one can affect brain function during a stressful situation. According...
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Our Sonshine vanished so suddenly

I came home that night to find something white sticking out between the door jamb and the wall. The business card of a Detective Cook from the Special Investigations Unit. I turned it over. “Grace Cherian. Please call. It’s in relation to your brother.” My brother, Wilson, born nine years after...
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The Brush, the Pen and Recovery: A Film Review

I listened intently. He was tall and handsome—in a rugged sort of way. With his dark moustache and brown cowboy hat, he cut quite a striking figure. “They dried me out from drugs,” Ronson says as he adds some brush strokes to a vibrant landscape painting. Then he pauses and corrects himself....
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