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”Yes, that’s right, you’re the problem. Mothers are always the problem, he says.”

”Maybe he’s right. But here’s the crux of it, owl-baby. Your father wants to fix you, and I want to love you as you are.”

”The birds are telling me that my life’s work, as your mother, will be to teach you how to be yourself - and to honor however much of the wild world you have in you, owl-baby - rather than mold you to be what I want you to be, or what your father wants you to be.”