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What I think is that there is no perspective in grief, or in love. How can there be, when one person becomes the center of the universe - either becau...more

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We pretend that we know our children, because it's easier than admitting the truth--from the minute that cord is cut, they are strangers. It's far eas...more

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It was so damn hard to find love in this world, to locate someone who could make you feel that there was a reason you'd been put on this earth. A chil...more

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[I] don't think I was trying to kill myself. I just wanted to hurt, and understand exactly whay I was hurting. This made sense: you cut, you felt pain...more

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I wondered how long it took for a baby to become yours, for familiarity to set in. Maybe as long as it took a new car to lose that scent, or a brand-n...more

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Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don't want their kids... but when you look more closely, you realize that they're doing those...more

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Was it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when you relinquished your child? If people were measured by their deed...more

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I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.

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Children are supposed to go to school, play on swing sets, skin their knees.

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There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots as there are in the bright ones.

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I used to think I'd be just like them when I grew up, but I am not. And the thing is, somewhere along the way, I stopped wanting to be like them, anyw...more

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Things don't always look as they seem. Some stars, for example, look like bright pinholes, but when you get them pegged under a microscope you find yo...more

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It was easier for girls. They could say This hurts, or I don’t like how this feels, and have the complaint be socially acceptable. Boys, though, didn’...more

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And that was the greatest heartbreak of all- no matter how spectacular we want our children to be, no matter how perfect we pretend they are, they are...more

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Babies don't come with instruction booklets. You'd learn the same way we all do -- you'd read up on dinosaurs, you'd Google backhoes and skidders. And...more