Ruthless Writing
Sometimes, you have to kill your baby.
In ancient cultures families would sacrifice newborns to the gods for a better harvest. We find this barbaric, and it is. We also forget that few children reached adulthood (which was adolescence, or puberty, marrying age). Families didn’t grow attached to their newborns.
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In ancient cultures families would sacrifice newborns to the gods for a better harvest. We find this barbaric, and it is. We also forget that few children reached adulthood (which was adolescence, or puberty, marrying age). Families didn’t grow attached to their newborns.
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