The Childless Writer
Finding meaning as not-a-mother
I have seven brothers. One of them is dead. Two of them married their high-school sweethearts. One of them was arrested. One of them is liberal. The rest of them are not. I am the only girl.
Raised up in a house brooding with boys, a mother who joked about being pregnant or nursing for near twenty years straight, a father who sulked until he shouted and …
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