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Saying Yes to the Book is Just Like Saying Yes to the Dress

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By Jocelyn Jane Cox
| Literary Hub Verified
I’ve always tried to go in my own direction and extract fun from situations that might otherwise incite anxiety. I learned this from my mother, a painfully shy woman who’d been dubbed “the bashful blond” in school, and who also had a flair for (quietly) hosting unique gatherings. Despite a childhood filled with tragedy and an adulthood with constant disappointment and health complications, she was a practical joker who never missed April Fools Day.
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Most Figure-Skating Couples Project Romance. But What if You’re Siblings?

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By Jocelyn Jane Cox
| Slate Verified
Five-ring Circus Jocelyn Jane Cox and Brad Cox performing their “tiger” free dance at the 1991 U.S. Figure Skating Championships. Read more of Slate’s 2026 Olympics coverage here. As Olympic ice dancers swirl across our TV screens this week, we get to play another round of everyone’s favorite figure-skating game: Are they or aren’t they dating? I’ll give you one free answer to this Milan Cortina pop quiz: Team USA’s gold medal hopefuls, Madison Chock and Evan Bates, got married in 2024.
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Why Having Mom Move In With This Caregiver Was a Mistake

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By Jocelyn Jane Cox
| AARP
When my mother initially began to struggle with her memory, our instinct was to bring her closer to us. I lived with my husband, Rob, near Nyack, New York, where I’d moved to attend graduate school and where he worked in technology. My brother lived with his family about 25 minutes south, and our mother, Barbara, was living alone in Delaware, about three hours away from all of us. She’d been divorced from my father for more than 25 years.
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