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You thought you lucked out on rent? See how much these longtime SF residents pay for their rent-controlled apartments. Via The Bold Italic.

NPR host Scott Simon recently lost his mother. Instead of turning to radio to talk about her passing, Simon tweeted her last days.

For several days, in a hospital somewhere in Chicago, the end-of-life struggles of Patricia Lyons Simon Newman Gilband, 84, have been watched the world over. Many readers have been moved to tears, while others have had to look away, taken aback by the intimate view Scott has shared of his mother’s suffering, all the way to her last breath.

I don’t know how we’ll get through these next few days. And, I don’t want them to end.

A sweet and sad piece via The Los Angeles Times.

Is changing your baby’s diaper in the window of a restaurant ok? MissionMission commenters weigh in.

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Hélène Goupil is a former editor at Mission Local who now works independently as a videographer and editor. She's the co-author of "San Francisco: The Unknown City" (Arsenal Pulp Press).

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