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Posts from ‘November, 2010’

Poem: “Adopting a Fourteen-Year-Old in the 21st Century”

Adopting a Fourteen-Year-Old in the 21st Century Teenage girls hate difference, and their mothers. They want concave bellies, current fashion, and to fit in. That was my fear, and her other mom’s: that she might despise our dyke passion, our wheelchairs, Robin’s speech, my respirator, or her own awkward tender girl body. Would the pride [...]