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A columnist for the Metro section, Abraham’s work appears on Thursdays and Sundays. She previously covered state and national politics, and immigration at the Globe. She came to the paper in 1998 from the Boston Phoenix.
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Only child lovingly handles affairs of aging relatives
By Yvonne Abraham , Globe Columnist
Ann McGlinchy has been partly or wholly responsible for seeing nine of her relatives to the ends of their lives in her sociable, outspoken, Irish Catholic family.
Yvonne Abraham
Tending graves and memories of the departed
By Yvonne Abraham , Globe Columnist
As people washed headstones, pulled weeds, and tended geraniums at Pine Grove Cemetery in Lynn, the joy and pain of life with their loved ones flooded back.
Yvonne Abraham
Light sentences in drunken driving cases feed dangerous myth
By Yvonne Abraham , Globe Columnist
Lenient sentences for apologetic offenders feed the wrong-headed perception that drunken driving is more a common human failing than a crime.
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A long time coming
By Yvonne Abraham , Globe Columnist
Sometimes, it takes longer than expected to graduate from college. It took Pat Lundin, who graduated from Northern Essex Community College Saturday, 45 years.