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Speeding Up and Slowing Down by Heather Booth My daughters are about two years apart, with one year separating them in school. It was just days after my younger daughter’s tenth birthday party when schools closed. Her sister, at a wizened 12-and-a-half years old and in junior high, was pulling away from her, getting her first tastes of adolescent freedom. They were in different schools, had different friends, different schedules, and different hobbies. And then, overnight, all of that was gone: they had only each other. In the liminal spaces of lockdown and social restrictions, I observed something interesting. My 12-year-old embraced the loves that she had eschewed once she became a junior-high-schooler. And my 10-year-old exhibited a grace and maturity more like that of her sister’s…
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Book Links (Digital) - 1 Issue, November 2021