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Joyce, pre-season 5
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The night before, she had one daughter.
That morning she wakes up with two fat-baby pictures on her nightstand. Two caesarean scars, twirled around each other like DNA. Two folders full of medical minutiae; immunization records, Dawn’s penicillin allergy newly filed next to Buffy’s psychotherapy. Another whole teensworth of carpool schedules and fretful memorized detail, PSAT signups and school supplies to be bought. All the feeling she has for Buffy doubled quietly in the night; two loves, two worries, too much all at once.
Something in her brain cannot quite bear it. Something in her brain begins to go wrong.
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The night before, she had one daughter.
That morning she wakes up with two fat-baby pictures on her nightstand. Two caesarean scars, twirled around each other like DNA. Two folders full of medical minutiae; immunization records, Dawn’s penicillin allergy newly filed next to Buffy’s psychotherapy. Another whole teensworth of carpool schedules and fretful memorized detail, PSAT signups and school supplies to be bought. All the feeling she has for Buffy doubled quietly in the night; two loves, two worries, too much all at once.
Something in her brain cannot quite bear it. Something in her brain begins to go wrong.