I was expecting to be surrounded by mess, shouting, hopefully some amusement, but life, definitely, and a noisy one, which did not sound like heartbreak to me at all. But as soon as the children were born it was blindingly obvious—your heart can’t break unless it has something to love. The way you love your children, they take your heart with you everywhere they go. Suddenly you realize just how cruel, just how loud and brash and harsh and illogically cruel, the world is, and it turns out that other mother was right. When they laugh, when they cry, when they’re ill, when they grow, every
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