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How to Live and How to Die

I close my eyes, savor a wafer of sacred cake on my tongue and try to taste my mother, to discern the message she baked in these loaves when she was too ill to eat them: I love you. It will end. Leave something of sweetness and substance in the mouth of the world.

Anna Belle Kaufman
1mo ago

You are yourself, of course: a human with desires and opinions and wants and needs, who likes stupid action movies, who wants to learn Italian someday, who would rather eat lo mein than General Tso's, who prefers this route to the grocery store over that one. But you are also a vessel for potential offspring, Schrodinger's uterus awaiting a tenant. Babies take priority, while birthing parents are disposable.

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