Consider Yourself Kissed: A Novel

hip. Anyone here a lesbian?” Everyone glanced around. No one raised their hand. “That’s funny—Hackney? Normally quite a few. Well, one thing you find with same-sex parents. The baby comes to resemble them both, bio and non-bio. How? Expressions. You don’t just have genes in common; it’s that daily face-to-face contact. Even if you share no genes, t

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Then somehow a fight bloomed, and she was saying that every single choice about their life was a choice that was made by him. Where they lived, having Florence later than Coralie had wanted so she was starting school in a global pandemic, the way he simply missed the hardest part of parenting for the majority of every day, how he’d used their eight

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Coralie was absolutely ruthless about not engaging in what the experts called “body talk” in front of the girls. No staring into the mirror, smoothing her thighs with a disgusted face. No “I feel bloated,” no “I earned this treat,” no gossip about people’s appearances, none of it. Years ago, she’d spent ages carefully live-editing Roald Dahl while

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