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“I felt like tooth-paste emerging from a tube.”

Fiction Birth Single Mothers Young Mothers

Book:Making Hearts

Source: Making Hearts

“Maybe that's what life was really about - trying to reclaim the safety and comfort you previously enjoyed inside a womb.”

Fiction Baby Birth Single Parent Single Mothers

Book:Making Hearts

Source: Making Hearts

“only a handful of pregnant women are like Emily; that is, they go to the hospital with pain and get the surprise of their life by delivering a child. Using Emily’s least-favorite math term, decimals, the number would be 0.0004 percent of all U.S. births. About fifteen hundred surprise babies a year.”

Novel Family Love Novel Writing

Book:Making Hearts

Source: Making Hearts

“Clutching me in her arms, Mama stared at Emily. “You have a responsibility to this child.”

Parents Parenthood Family Drama

Book:Making Hearts

Source: Making Hearts

“Daylight streamed in the hospital windows, warming my spirits. Only darkness had existed while being born: Never before had I personally witnessed the startling difference between night and day.”

Dramas Family Novel

Book:Making Hearts

Source: Making Hearts

“Emily’s fear of raising me—her panic at being a mother—lived in the air like an advancing lightning storm. I reminded myself how young she was, how scared. But I could only see her distress over my birth as a rejection. Her alarm was impossible not to take personally.”

Fiction Novel Family Novel

Book:Making Hearts

Source: Making Hearts