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This author seems to think that having a baby is the cure for everything, and also that sadness is an emotion you shouldn't feel.

"Grown-ups, who are supposed to protect their children, are limited by what "best" has felt like to them, based on the circumstances they grew up in and the privilege they did or did not have. The lines between grown-up and child were often blurred between me and my mom. Her "best" did not look like mine; in fact, it looked like danger. It felt like surrender." Pg. 70-71

"He presented it to me as if it were something that might be spoken away and made right, but I couldn't speak it away, I realized; to speak it away would have been to speak myself away, what else could it have meant, and so Yes, I said, laying claim to myself, it is true, yes."

This really gut punched me.

I'm really enjoying this book so far. It has an atmospheric feel, and due to the nature of the narration has a lot of elements of spoken story telling.