2004 - Seventeen Magazine

"Boy, it sure is fun to be home for a change!" Ashley told her sister Mary-Kate. The two teenage girls were walking their dog, Quincy, down their street. Mary-Kate nodded. "I love flying around the world on top-secret missions," she said. "But sometimes I get homesick." Mary-Kate and Ashley had the most amazing jobs. They were special agents. Their missions took them to faraway places all the time. "I get homesick, too," Quincy said.
"Shhh," Ashley said, looking down at the Scottish terrier. "Someone might hear you." "So?" Quincy asked. "So in case you forgot," Mary-Kate said with a smile, "real...

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The second-oldest cemetery in Manhattan is a small, well-maintained affair: the names of those interred here are inscribed on tablets lining the walls. Hazelnut trees dot the lawn. Once an undistinguished plot of land on the Lower East Side, the graveyard now abuts the tiled patio of a boutique hotel where Mary-Kate Olsen has decided we should meet. "I remember this place used to be so cool", she says, raising her eyes to the...