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When Telling Your Own Story Gets in the Way of Processing Trauma

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What Motherhood in Kenya Reveals About the Nature of Family

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Writing Biography Without an Archive: On Recovering a Past Believed to Be Lost

Writing Biography Without an Archive: On Recovering a Past Believed to Be Lost

Vanda Krefft Offers Some Tips to Help Those Who Are Struggling To Find Primary Sources

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Roots of Stone: Diana McCaulay on Finding Your Story In That of Your Ancestors

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“The woman in my mind had a certainty about rootedness I had never achieved.”

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