She Said I Couldn’t Hold The Baby Because Of “Germs” — The Real Reason Broke My Heart

edges smoothed away. I had grown up adjusting for this, subtracting roughly twenty percent from her self-reports and adding it back to her grievances, and we had managed, in the way that sisters manage — not without friction, but without fracture.

I thought a baby might ground her. Motherhood has that effect on some people — it turns the volume down continue reading …