This issue of MER is themed "Ages/Stages." The works in this issue shift perspectives. Mothers interpret, complicate, celebrate, and ameliorate children's milestones: a first day of school in "Red Boots" by Donna Shanley, a son's first heartbreak in Carrie Vittitoe's "A First," a pivotal event in Cheryl Fish's "A Seven-Year-Old Left Alone Shivering." Our children's stages recall our own pasts to us. Our elders' stages anticipate our future...
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