Prompt: everything looks like a nail
Content Warning for premature babies and scary medical situations, nothing explicit

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There is someone I haven’t met yet who is 2 lbs 1 oz. He was born last week, 15 weeks early, and someday he’ll call me aunt.

This week everything I think of floats back to him. How is he doing? Is he growing the way he should? ( Read more... )

Bonjour. I do not speak French.

Once, in Paris, I hugged a woman who reminded me of the sun. She is bright and vibrant and her words can bring life and death. She's a ballet dancer and a lawyer and she walks through parks delighting in the world around her, bundled up against the gentle chills of Paris in the spring.
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