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May 2025 | Maggie Appleton
What I want to say is this: The reason I’d do this to myself is because I want messy. And I’m greedy. And I want another one because four makes me feel neat. Neat is so unfamiliar it makes me feel homesick, but creating messiness is like making it right. Because even though there will be less of the good things, like sleep, time, sex and money, the
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What he didn’t know, and what I had unconsciously come to realize, was that I was already a different person. I hadn’t delivered the baby yet, wasn’t officially a mother yet, but labor had already changed me.
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Presumably every new parent, arriving home from the hospital to face the reality of their incompetence in the matter of child-rearing, feels some desire to spend their time as wisely as possible—first to keep the squirming bundle alive, and then to do whatever they can to lay the foundations for a happy future.