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Before Becoming
“I don’t know how you can remain so unaffected.” Dripping with judgment and delivered with acrid tone, her words had me on my heels. Some childlike part of me shrunk in shame while another part felt the sting of indignation in recognizing she had not asked a single question to understand my interior landscape. Once…
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Return to Your Senses
Nothing would be the same after that day…nor could I understand all the ways that was true. I was in a deep sleep when the phone trilled. Certain I had once again overslept; my nervous system launched its menagerie of physical sensations that expressed its state of panic as my mind quickly composed another version…
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Getting Over the Hump
This was our first big outing together without her parents. We knew when we asked her if she wanted to spend her birthday with her uncle and Auntie at the zoo, that we had entered a new playing field. At the start of the day, we had a relationship that felt familiar, but it had…
