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EDITOR’S Note

MY SON, AGE TEN, RECENTLY ASKED ME IF I HAD EVER BEEN afraid of the nighttime. He was brushing his teeth, anticipating the trudge upstairs, where, with his thirteen-year-old sister at summer camp—her bedroom door closed for three whole weeks, her teenage secrets

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