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A mother's body remembers her babies-the folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her nose. Each child has it's own entreaties to body and...more

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God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much.

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Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.

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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

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She has changed in this way that motherhood changes you, so that you forget you ever had time for small things like despising the color pink.

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That means you're my kid," I explained, "and I'm your mother, and nobody can say it isn't so.

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Mother, you can still hold hold on but forgive, forgive and give for long as long as we both shall live, I forgive you, Mother.

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It lasted just a moment, whatever that is. One held breath? An ant's afternoon? It was brief, I can promise that much, for although it's been many yea...more

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A first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. You examine every turn of flesh for precocity,...more

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You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one's own.

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But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming after - oh, that's love b...more