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by phantompeace 497 days ago
What's the word you call your younger self when you think you've got it figured out? Foolish seems too gentle a word. Before having my own, I would wonder why everyone spoke of losing a child as a pain beyond all others. I even had the audacity to think they were being dramatic - after all, they'd only known their child for such a short time. After having my own, I find myself breaking my own heart with the thought of loss almost like my spirit is trying to build calluses against a blow I pray never comes