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My name is Major Molly Martin. I am thirty-five years old, and I buried the only man who ever truly saw me—not the rank on my chest,…

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“Don’t do this, Jen,” I told my sister the morning of her wedding. “Marrying Chris is a mistake.” Jen stood in front of the hotel mirror in…

The phone rang at 11:43 p.m., and it didn’t sound like a call. It sounded like a warning. I was halfway into a dream—lake water flat as…

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An extraordinary convergence of extreme weather is unfolding across the Caribbean and the southeastern United States, creating one of the most complex and demanding periods meteorologists and…

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