The Heart of a Mother

by Julie Clark

There’s an emotional toll to carrying a baby, giving birth to them, and then giving them away. It eats away at you. The idea of your child out there, not knowing you . . . it’s soul crushing.

And when you make that deepest desire part of your public persona and share it with the world, it shouldn’t surprise you when someone comes along and tries to give it to you.

Some people might call this an obsession. But perhaps, in some ways, that’s what unconditional love really is.