It’s one tiny change of plan. The first time your child doesn’t want you to hold them. The last time they ask you to play with them. Just baby steps and minuscule differences, and we all just assume it’s a hiccup…that things will go back to the way things have been if we just keep on trying. Keep believing. Keep assuming things are normal. But they aren’t because there is no normal. Normal doesn’t exist and it never has. There are just these periods where things feel safe and calm, and then, long before we’re ready, everything’s torn apart and we call it change. We look back at our lives and
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