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• Nonfiction > Personal Experience
  Faces

  By Josephine L., Walnut, CA

  When I walked into the hospital room, my grandfather was laying against the raised backrest of his cot, each pained breath facilitated by the IV tube hooked to his body. He had bladder cancer and had just undergone surgery to remove the tumor. But with it, the doctors had also sliced away a piece of...
• Nonfiction > Memoir
  16 Going On 16

  By Josephine L., Walnut, CA

  I bought my first tube of lipstick at six, with a picture of Barbie wrapped around it, but nevertheless, bright, red, and shiny, which was the epitome of lipstick for me. I started reading my mother’s Vogue when I was ten. I couldn’t pronounce half the words I read, but it was enough to stare...