Authors Peng Shepard and Anne Tyler show that family is...complicated
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How Do We Get to This Stage?
The Garrets of Baltimore, the dad is Robin, the mom is Mercy. They've got three kids, two daughters and a son. All we know about them is that although they have no great cataclysmic disruptions their relationships with each other aren't connected anymore.
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