Baes + Babies
Romance of all kinds, heartbreak, first love, motherhood, fatherhood, pets
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The next best thing
I'm a neurotic loon. I knew from the start, but it was his being exactly that which made me fall…
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Activist lover
WE USED TO RIDE THE SAME BUS WHEN WE WERE STILL in grade school. She was always neat, prim and…
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Perfect girl? She doesn’t exist
Most of the time, I don’t like the person that stares back at me when I look into the mirror.…
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Losing three men
I was 13 years old when he left me. It was an ordinary Monday. I left for school without much…
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COVID-19 and my mother’s ‘champorado’
There was one thing I had always longed to hear from my mother. It was a simple question answerable with…
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I thought I had everything figured out
I had thought that Denette (not her real name) was the one I would finally settle down with.
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ASL?
“ASL?” I hit the send button in my conversation with a stranger. Three letters: age, sex, location—whether you’re looking for…
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Motherhood in the pandemic
It was too hot. I sat on one of the chairs outside the pediatrician’s clinic in a hospital while my…
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