“It’s a messy business, having children. Parents are supposed to be wise and worthy and selfless, and really, it’s the other way around. Most of the time you can get away with the masquerade and it feels great. But then you walk off the stage and into the daylight, and suddenly the whole world can see it was all bad makeup and props,” Tilly said, tears sliding down her cheeks, wetting the pain she’d drawn on her face. By some dark magic, I watched Tilly shrink with sorrow and grow with love. She grew distant even as she drew me in, and my own cheeks became slick with tears as I thought of how
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Life parenting and parents
