Column: However you express your love, may yours be plentiful

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Harris Blackwood

For The Times

Published: Feb 6, 2025, 6:29 PM

An aunt or a friend of my mamas would always hit me up for an expression of love. “Give me some sugar,” they would say expecting a hug or a kiss.

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Column: Then and now: What’s in a name?

Harris Blackwood

For The Times

Published: Mar 6, 2025, 7:07 PM

I find it unusual that we allow children to name grandparents and dogs. My mother has been dead for years and she wanted to be called Grandmother.

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