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youtube "Dad, How Do I?" provides how-to videos for kids without dads. Janelle Hessig

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music Music: 'Trying Times,' Roberta Flack Xeni Jardin

literature Get lost in one of 50 contemporary books over 500 pages long Gareth Branwyn

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