This narrative reveals how happiness can coexist with fear in parenting, highlighting emotional depth and complexity.
Abstract: "My girls were my greatest joy—sometimes I wondered how I could bear the love I felt, looking at them—but the kind of happiness they gave me wasn't the long-walks, ruminative kind. It was a slowly accreting thing, terror threaded through every layer."
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