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    Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “daughter, growing, changes, hormones, depression, motherhood, parenting, thorns, picking fruit, puberty, maturity”

    Not Ripe, But Ripening

    Tammy Kleinman October 14, 2020 essays

    By Tammy Kleinman. Picking in the orchard, she chooses the ripest berries—the succulent, dripping fruits that drop effortlessly into her palm. I can see her struggling to resist a taste. This is what she wants, and yet, maybe not yet. Maybe she can wait.

    daughter, growing, changes, hormones, depression, motherhood, parenting, thorns, picking fruit, puberty, maturity

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