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  • On Mother's Day, And Remembering My Daughter (Who'd Be 12 Years Old Today)

    Sometimes it’s easy to forget it ever happened, to go about life and never have it surface in the forefront of my mind. Even when I am reminded by my naked reflection, the now barely-there line of a scar etched below my pelvis, a slight kiss from a scalpel in yesteryears past. The small Bs that were…

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    Shanae Brown






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    May 17, 2017
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