I Came Home From Work and Found My Baby in a Condition I Will Never Forget – The Archivist

in a form she can use without giving her the fear.

For now, she kicks and reaches and makes noise and refuses to stay still, and every time she does I feel it again, that deep specific gratitude, the one that lives in the chest rather than in the mind.

She moves. She is alive. She is mine.

That is the whole of it, and it is enough.

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