AFTER/WORDS by Jessy Easton

AFTER/WORDS by Jessy Easton

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AFTER/WORDS by Jessy Easton
AFTER/WORDS by Jessy Easton
The things I want you to know

The things I want you to know

On Motherhood: What I wished someone would've told me when I was young

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Jun 20, 2022
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Jessy Easton writing about motherhood

You turned ten months and I didn’t even know it. I was behind a day and that mark in time passed by, unnoticed. When I woke up the following morning, I looked at the light coming in through the window and thought about where we would go to celebrate. Maybe we’d go to the river lined with rhododendrons or to that point along the Appalachian Trail that gi…

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