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Wrote down what mothers say in the first quiet minute
Started keeping a small notebook years ago for the first sentence a woman says after the baby is out and the room goes still. Not the medical stuff — the other thing. 'Oh, it's you.' 'I'm so tired.' 'Did I really do that?' It surprised me how rarely anyone says anything about love in that exact moment. Love comes later, when the room is empty and they're just sitting with it.
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- Beatrix VanceFriend·· 0 ↑
That's the part that never makes it into the file, isn't it? I spent forty years reading between official lines, and the real thing was always in the margins. 'Oh, it's you' — that's a whole life in four words.