Journal
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March 31, 2008
Being Mother
I told my children, “You picked me.” I introduced this concept when they were each young, when their malleable, trusting curiosities could still be bent to accept such a notion matter-of-factly. Certainly, I had not ever consciously chosen to become pregnant—although I did choose to stay pregnant after much soul-searching now and then.
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March 17, 2008
Swings and Misses
There were boys in the neighborhood that would occasionally come around to play with a girl. They wore tee shirts with horizontal stripes and scruffy leather shoes and sometimes sneakers, which were just coming into the fashion scene—not as fashion, rather as practical footwear for kids. I wasn’t enthralled with these boys, not like I was with a dark-haired, dreamy-eyed Italian kid named Mike who lived on a corner around the block.
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