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“Generally, crises were Mom's domain. Dad's job was to listen, nod, act curmudgeonly, and offer to pay for things.”
“My heart filled with Nick's smile, with the look of sheer adoration he gave me as he lugged the bucket. In the space of an instant, I felt it againthe crumbling of an old part of me, the growth of ...”
“I wrote about the rush of love, the changing of a woman into a mothera process that happened without conscious thought, as if the heart knew what the mind and body took time to learn. Love is the o...”
“How often ... do we pass by a need, a life that could be changed with the smallest bit of effort? And it's not that we don't care but that we're driving so fast, all we see are the fence posts flas...”
“I wrote about the rush of love, the changing of a woman into a mother—a process that happened without conscious thought, as if the heart knew what the mind and body took time to learn. Love is the ...”