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I'm hungry for you. Old you, new you.
Mothers, I believe, intoxicate us. We idolize them and take them for granted. We hate them and blame them and exalt them more thoroughly than anyone else in our lives. We sift through the evidence of their love, reassure ourselves of their affection and its biological genesis. We can steal and lie and leave and they will love us.
It was a character-building week, a week that thinned my hair, put circles underneath my eyes.
I knew I was waiting for someone I didn't understand.
I don't want him to know that people like Louis's mom exist, that people fall into land mines of pain and can't crawl back out.
I want to mother the world, I thought. I have so much love.
Then - I have no business being a mother. I am a selfish woman.
Then - I can do this. Millions of women have been mothers.
Then - I feel very alone. I do not know what I'm capable of.
There were no promises, no obligations between living things, she thought. Not even humans. Just raw need hidden by a game of make-believe.
Sometimes it helps to lie. You tell yourself a story, even if you don't know the ending.
Power is a funny thing. Sometimes you can just take it.
I remember thinking that moms were not allowed to be sad, that surely women grew out of sadness by the time they had children.
I pictured the mother whale, exhausted from labor, pushing her calf up to the skin of the water. The miracle of breath in the face of predation, life in the wake of whaling ships.
Worrying about parents is a waste of time. It's your life. Let's have a martini.