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Which was probably why people used drugs.
Lol
In Nikki’s experience, some people didn’t change as they aged. They just became more so.
Why were women expected to both give birth and remember to buy No. 2 pencils?
She missed excelling at something, at being good at what she did, and the recognition that came with it.
But no benchmarks of excellence existed in motherhood, and she received no recognition for surpassing or even meeting these invisible standards. God did not reach down from heaven and mark the worthy. Instead, judgment rained down from grandparents, education experts, parenting columnists, in-laws, dentists, and strangers on airplanes. But the harshest judgment came from the endless whisper of self-reproach from within. It came on long days when she fell short of the invisible mark in some small or large way, failing the people she loved with a love so pure and primal that it took her breath
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Moms are superwomen
Perhaps she could scrape up some extra cash by producing DIY internet porn for men aroused by C-section scars.
Loll
Motherhood was only easy if you did it the wrong way.
“I like to cook.” “Do you like Pap smears and mammograms too?”
My thoughts on cooking
“I used to be a stripper.”
