Growing up, Melissa Shultz sometimes felt like she had two fathers. One version of her dad, she told me, was playful and quick to laugh. He was a compelling storyteller who helped shape her career as ...

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Think about your role in your family. Are you the daughter who smooths things over? Keeps the peace? Makes sure everyone feels okay? Or are you the one who says the thing no one else will say? If that ...

Tracy Clark-Flory, a writer, on meeting her long-lost sister and how her mother’s life was shaped by being sent away to a “home for unwed mothers” in the 1960s. Credit...Illustration by Brian Rea ...