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Your child has just left for their other parent's house: what's the first thing you do now that you're alone?
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Your child has just left for their other parent's house: what's the first thing you do now that you're alone?

The strangness of this particular transition from mother to free woman

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Miranda July
Dec 22, 2024
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My twelve year old child had just left with their father, I was done with my four intense days of parenting (so intense when you're parenting alone! I prefer it, more intimate, but we go so hard, the two of us. Falling down rabbit holes, climbing out, high highs, low lows. It's all very feminine.)

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