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b'Before Celeste Ng became a best-selling author, she had a side hustle selling miniatures on eBay \\u2014 dollhouse-size recreations of food were her specialty. Even after the publication of \\u201cLittle Fires Everywhere,\\u201d \\u201cEverything I Never Told You,\\u201d and, most recently, \\u201cOur Missing Hearts,\\u201d Celeste still makes tiny things \\u2014 now, as a hobby. She\\u2019s come to realize the parallels between making small things and writing: Both give her a chance to look closely at the world.\\n\\nToday, Celeste kicks off our special podcast series, which celebrates 20 years of the Modern Love column, by reading Betsy MacWhinney\\u2019s essay \\u201cBringing a Daughter Back From the Brink With Poems.\\u201d She discusses her own deep-rooted relationship to poetry \\u2014 and the lessons, large and small, that poems can offer parents and children in uncertain times.'