Tag: motherhood
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You Always Believe the Mother
My son took nineteen hours. Both of my girls took two. Two hours, start to finish, both times. These days when someone says “two-hour delivery” they mean something turning up from Amazon, a phone charger or a bag of dog food left on the porch. I delivered two entire human beings in that window. I…
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Montaña de Oro
I found it when I was at Cal Poly, and it became my favorite place on earth, and it has never lost the title. The entrance is a road lined with eucalyptus, tall and silver green, and driving into it always did something to me, some small reliable lift, like the curtain going up before…
Whatever Held 