About marriage and motherhood. Is it as bad as you say? Can you really not be an artist? Are all the holidays ruined?” I thought about it. “Some get better, actually. Christmas. Halloween. All you need on the Fourth of July is a box of sparklers. Pregnancy makes you appreciate your body kind of. And living with another person is . . . nice. Things appear, get bought even though you didn’t buy them, get cleaned even though you didn’t clean them. They get fucked up too, by the kid, but even that’s kind of magic. You turn around and something’s in shards—something you were given, something you
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