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A publication about life...through motherhood, healing, storytelling, and truth. Messellech Abebe writes with honesty and depth about divorce, parallel parenting, faith, advocacy, identity, and the work it takes to rebuild a life you love.
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The Art of Loving (opens the original)
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It’s been a minute since an artist had me in a chokehold.Somewhere in between raising children, work, and managing the never-ending logistics of adult life, music became something I listened to in the background. I didn’t have much energy for discovering new music.And then Ms. Olivia Dean came along and changed that.The more I listened, the more I got lost in the many forms of love: the love we give, the love we receive, the love we hold onto, and perhaps the greatest of all, the love we learn t
Mare Mare (opens the original)
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There are moments that divide your life into before and after.Motherhood is one of them.Your world tilts on its axis, and everything you thought you knew begins to shift. Your perspective. Your friendships. Your ambitions. Your body. Your sense of who you are and who you’re allowed to become.Sometimes that transformation is loud. Sometimes it’s so quiet you don’t notice it until years later.I was almost six months into that tilt in December 2016 when a girlfriend, who had just discovered she was
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