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Alexis
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This is the thing I want more than I want any other thing—a baby, a family. My whole body, my heart, aches for it. I stalk playgrounds and offer to babysit the children of our friends. I browse baby names online and gaze longingly at images
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“A pregnancy wasn’t a promise.”
― No One Can Know
― No One Can Know
“It was less like she was lying in their dark bedroom, surfing the web to read about other women's miscarriages, and more as if the building had collapsed on them and they were trapped under tons of brick and plaster.”
― The Pram
― The Pram
“She read paperbacks too, one after the next like she was chain-smoking—romance, science fiction, old pulp fantasy. All she wanted to do was sit, unbothered in a circle of lamplight, and live someone else’s life.”
― Hell Bent
― Hell Bent
Alexis’s 2025 Year in Books
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