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Bassey Ikpi
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·Feb 19, 2020

How to Cure Childhood Anxiety, One Sam Cooke Album at a Time

When Dad routinely came home after midnight, only music soothed my childhood soul — My early memories of life, growing up in Stillwater, Oklahoma, are fraught. We were immigrants and my parents were full-time students working multiple jobs while trying their best to parent a child they could barely understand, in a country that refused to understand them. To say it was difficult is…

Family

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How to Cure Childhood Anxiety, One Sam Cooke Album at a Time
How to Cure Childhood Anxiety, One Sam Cooke Album at a Time
Family

5 min read


Published in ZORA

·Aug 16, 2019

The Challenger Explosion Is the Day My Brain Broke

Life continued to move on for others after this tragedy, but something within me grinded to a halt — I remember it as 1984. I remember it as the third grade, three months before the new tire swing on the playground. Before the contest to see who could spin the fastest and the longest, during recess, began. Before I stood in front of the class and threw up all…

NASA

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The Challenger Explosion Is the Day My Brain Broke
The Challenger Explosion Is the Day My Brain Broke
NASA

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