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Week 12 (2021)

the virtue in private lives, pain in parenting & the caskets of children, looking for home, asian americans in rural america

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Haley Baumeister
Mar 22, 2021
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  • I traded my chronic pain for children. — Liuan Huska, Fathom — “I start to resent how much their bodies need from me. I feel trapped by their fragile flesh. The decisions—Tylenol or not? See the doctor or wait it out?—are a corset around my ribs, each one laced with what ifs and…

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