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Turn off your phone. One more phone call or text from family asking if you’ve had the baby yet as if you have forgotten to tell them and you’re gonna have a meltdown.

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I am not hung up on the past, nor does this particular story have any bearing on my life now, except it did become a pattern of what was to come.

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You tell her that her body isn’t meant to be looked at, examined, ogled and objectified by the world and by her own self. It’s for activity, learning, sports, loving. Her body is her vessel to leave her mark on the world.

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Being a mother is an amazing title, but it’s also the hardest job on earth.

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In one moment, in one instance, everything I have ever know was completely gone.

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Today I want to thank you. For supporting my dreams when you couldn’t understand them. For being there for me when I constantly pushed you away. For accepting me just the way I am.

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I knew there was something wrong with me. I assumed it was because the labor was so difficult. If I waited long enough, all of my bad feelings would suddenly go away.

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There is nothing easy about having a mother who doesn’t know how to love.

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If you do not feel good about yourself, you will most likely give off the negative energy you are feeling to other people.

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Stop telling her what she should or shouldn’t eat/drink/do/read….and so on and so on.