Theron Tingstad

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If kindergarten is where children learn how to interact with other children, then roommates are how young adults learn to live with other adults.

You don’t have to love them all, but you can count on not forgetting any of them.

And Baby Makes Five: Married Life, With Roommates

Theron Tingstad: "There is something special about sharing periods of your life with people who, while not family, are more than friends." (polaroidjesus/Flickr)

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The archetype of confrontational competition is as much a part of humankind as the love story, the war story or the odyssey.

Boxing not only functions, like myth and legend, as a metaphor for life’s challenges. It also provides the intensity and excitement that is so often missing from our everyday affairs.

Hero In The Ring: Concussions Or No, We Won't Stop Playing Contact Sports

Theron Tingstad: "While I don’t know if boxing was, on balance, the right thing to do for my mind and body, I do know that it was good for my soul." Pictured: A fight at the World Championships at  Albert Hall, London, on Feb. 18, 1930. (AP)

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