Dear Bare Heart, After three years of trying, we are blessed. I’m pregnant. But it’s not what I fantasized. Because of a pregnancy-induced problem with my legs, I cannot stand for more than a few minutes, and I cannot sleep because I have to get up and squat-stretch every hour. The hemorrhoids are insane. My […]
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Close to the Bone
Close to the Bone For a long time, my life was like being displaced in some way, transient and fractured, forever exiled from my own body. I could not be or become comfortable, because at any moment the next evacuation might occur, where the alarms inside the head short circuit and scream ceaselessly even though […]