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    Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “fatherhood, parenting, motherhood, pregnancy, chronic illness, middle place, c-section, death, loss, mourning, birthdays”

    The Air That I Breathe

    Jocelyn Pihlaja January 26, 2023 essays

    In the last weeks of his life, I would talk to my dad on the phone every day. It was January, and at the same time his heart and lungs were deteriorating, my body was helping those organs grow inside the baby I’d been carrying for more than 40 weeks.

    fatherhood, parenting, motherhood, pregnancy, chronic illness, middle place, c-section, death, loss, mourning, birthdays

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