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You are never alone, not ever. Lying in the sand of the vast Arabian Desert one night, his vehicle wrecked, the 23-year-old soldier could have used the comfort. He had never been so far from home. He had never felt so uncertain. Still, amid the darkness, he imagined something better. "It was a traumatic time but also a turning point," he said. "I internalized the fact that life is short, and I promised to make the most of mine." He promised to become a writer. Thirty years after Operation Desert Storm brought him to Iraq with the U.S. Army, the Somerset father of four has fulfilled his promis...

DARTMOUTH — Ben Shattuck, 36, is embarking on an adventure with a 228-year-old friend. The friend is Davoll's General Store, the sunflower-yellow landmark in Russells Mills Village responsible for some of Ben's most cherished memories. In childhood, Davoll's was his pit stop on bike rides between home and Friends Academy; his penny candy headquarters; the spot where, at 9 years old, he helped sign copies of “Moonlight on the River,” a book illustrated by his father. Again and again, Ben has been pulled to the property, as if with the current of the neighboring river for which he got his...

Arianna MacNeill December 22, 2020 4:30 pm It’s probably not often that in a comparison of two homes for sale, the one located in Massachusetts is considered a bargain. But when Fall River trended on Twitter Tuesday morning, that was the case. Twitter users were stunned that the six-bedroom, seven-bathroom home located at 503 Highland Ave. in the Massachusetts city, priced at $1,099,000, is on the market for only $5,000 more than the two-bedroom, one-bathroom home at 11714 Exposition Boulevard in Los Angeles. “Obsessed that these homes are the same price,” Hunter Reis wrote in a...