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I Am His Daughter By Choice

Dear Pop, I used to dread Father’s Day. Seeing all these families celebrating their dads—it felt like salt in a wound after losing my father. The…

Dear future son-in-law, First of all, I want you to know I already love the hope of you. I’m already ready to be so thankful for you. I have…

Dear Mom, There is so much I didn’t understand back then, but now I do. I never understood why sometimes you would look at me for the longest time.…

My mother is bipolar. Not as a punchline to a joke, but genuinely, medically diagnosed as bipolar. She has been my whole life though we didn’t…

“Why do they look so tall all of a sudden?” I asked my friend as we trailed her twin 8-year-old boys down a hallway recently. …

Dear Mom, Today I came home from the hospital with my brand-new baby boy. As my weak postpartum body hobbled in the front door, there you were,…

Joy, frustration, pride, worry, heartbreak—they all play a role in the drama that is motherhood. Unbelievably, I’ve been acting out my role of…

It’s a bizarre thing to mother your mother. I constantly worry if she is sad, if she feels lonely, and if she will reach out if her heart aches…

She’s an introvert. I’m an extrovert. She has an angelic singing voice. Dogs run when I sing. She loves eggplant. I recoil at the mere…

Dear Mom, You’ve been my #1 fan my whole life. You were my fan even before I was born, even while I was making you so sick. I brought you misery…

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