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paranoia of the abandoned.
even though people said crying made them feel better, it made me feel frightened and small.
If he was going to have a child, of course he should have a say, but how much of a say, since the body was mine, since in creating a child, Nature demanded so much of the woman and so little of the man.
How you imagine something will be is always worse than how it actually ends up being,”
Nature must not want humans to reproduce, otherwise birthing would be easy, even enjoyable: babies would easily slip out, and mothers would remain unmarked and whole, merely blessed by having bestowed life.
She thought what I was feeling mattered.
Some kindnesses you do not ever forget. You carry them to your grave, held warmly somewhere, brought up and savored from time to time.
