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Maternity
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The newly minted maternal heart, it completely melted into mush, the oxytocin I know now, had kicked in, and how. I would fight tigers barehanded, climb down cliffs, throw myself in the path of a speeding car, and even do calculus again if I needed to, for this child.
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― Karmic Kids: The Story of Parenting Nobody Told You
― Karmic Kids: The Story of Parenting Nobody Told You
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Fathers are essentially different from mothers because we were all once in our mother's bodies, are born out of those bodies, and as infants take food from them. Paternity is more distant and less direct than maternity; it's a claim we accept as children, one inscribed in our legitimate, that is, legal, names.
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― A Plea for Eros: Essays
― A Plea for Eros: Essays
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