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Allison Quinn is a former news editor and reporter for the Daily Beast. She spent nearly a decade in Moscow and Kyiv reporting on human trafficking, corruption, Russia’s opposition, and the war in eastern Ukraine.
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My Son May Have Been a School Shooter If Not for These Folks
PERSONAL ESSAYThe thing they don’t tell you about pediatric bone marrow transplants is that your child will be fundamentally broken—and profoundly angry.

What It Means When Motherhood Is Peeing Yourself in Public
MOTHER’S DAYThis Mother’s Day, and every day, I’d die in slow motion to save my child.

Want to Know ‘How I’m Coping’ With My Terminally Ill Child?
PERSONAL ESSAYIf you have to ask the question, you have to be prepared for the worst in response.

RFK Jr. DOGEd Best Hope of Spotting My Son’s Brutal Disease
CARELESS PEOPLEHHS axed a committee on detecting rare inherited diseases. What could go wrong? Let me tell you.

My Son’s Disease Means I Know the Price of Idiots’ Mistakes
STUPID EXTINCTIONMy son is 8 and doctors are saving his life but worries we can go extinct from stupidity. He’s not wrong.

My Son Is the Envy of Anti-Vaxxers Everywhere
SATIREGood riddance, childhood immunizations. My son is now un-vaccinated and getting a second chance. All he had to do was undergo a horrific bone marrow transplant.

It Took My 8-Year-Old Son Making a Bomb Threat to Wake Me Up
PERSONAL ESSAYAfter being told we could leave the hospital following my son’s bone marrow transplant I figured we were due for some bad news. Then my son threatened to blow up the doctors and nurses treating him.

Why My Son Is Lucky Even as He Fights for His Life
A MOTHER'S LOVEDoctors on their rounds routinely ask how my son is feeling, and my answer is always “OK.” He’s “OK” in the sense that he’s still breathing on his own and not, as far as I can see, getting any worse.

How Dare Elon Musk Label My 8-Year-Old Son a ‘Parasite’
personal essayMusk has claimed his DOGE bros were all about “cutting government waste” and rooting out “massive fraud.” But then the mask slipped.

What to Do When Your Child Asks to Die
PERSONAL ESSAYMy eight-year-old son is enduring a form of torture more commonly known as a bone marrow transplant. I wasn’t ready for the one complication that should’ve been obvious.
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