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Paula Bomer

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Paula Bomer is the author of the novel Nine Months, two short story collections, Baby and Other Stories and Inside Madeleine, and a book of Essay, Mystery and Mortality. Her novel, Tante Eva, is forthcoming from Soho Press. She has a Bachelors in Psychology, worked in halfway houses for the mentally ill in the 1980s, and is in therapy herself.
My Father, Schizophrenic
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Published on: 01 Oct 2019
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My Father, My Love, My Schizophrenic

Published on: 01 Oct 2019
  • Written byPaula Bomer
  • Oct 01, 2019
Updated 3/3/2022 There are memories of childhood, and then there are those stories that you were told over…
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Published on: 27 Oct 2017
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The Grief of an Empty Nest: No Arms Syndrome

Published on: 27 Oct 2017
  • Written byPaula Bomer
  • Oct 27, 2017
When my sons were little, I would tell them, “You are my left arm and you are my…
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