First Links – 10.17.14

The Morality of Food—Then and Now
Leann Davis Alspaugh, The Hedgehog Review

Apple and Facebook Are Paying Employees to Freeze Their Eggs
Aaron Taube, Yahoo! Finance

The Divorcée’s French Class
Ellen Ann Fentress, The New York Times

Healers
Sophie Collins, Poetry Magazine

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