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The words landed with brutal finality.
“You can’t be serious,” I whispered. “I am,” he replied. “And if you refuse, I don’t know how we move forward.”
I did not cry.
I did not yell. I did not have the energy for either. I had just given birth, my body still trembling from the effort of it, my heart cracked open by the weight of becoming a mother.continue reading …