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You’ll Always Be My Baby

It feels like just yesterday I was staring down at my outstretched tummy, preparing to meet you for the first time. I was so excited to see your…

Fifteen years ago there lived three best friends. Three girls who lived to be together. They had grown up together, found community with each other,…

No one talks about the loss that happens when you become an aunt. No one talks about what you lose. What you didn’t intend on losing. No one talks…

Right now, you’re best friends. You beg to come with me when it’s time to wake sissy up from her nap, and her first words every morning are…

To my one and only child, is it OK if it’s just us? As I watch your heart grow bigger each day, I know without a shadow of a doubt your nurturing…

These people. This bond. This love. There are days I don’t like them. There are days, they feel the same way toward me. There are times I…

On the surface, we don’t have much in common. In fact, no one would peg us as sisters. She has straight, dark hair. I have wiry, curly, blond…

Your sister was there from the moment I saw that second faint line. I willed it to show; so much so I took four more tests that day. I hadn’t let…

We all have one. That one person who has been there for you. Whether it was during childhood, grade school, high school, college, or your first…

Being a sibling is a strange thing. You are born into a family you don’t choose with brothers or sisters you don’t choose. And then you have to…