Unlike men, women got less sentimental as we aged, I was discovering.

Melanie Benjamin

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Now and adult, allowed a glimpse of these first cracks in my family's perfect surface, I couldn't help but wonder what else I didn't understand about us all.

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Melanie Benjamin

Tags: family-relationships

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Were we women always destined to appear as we were not, as long as we were standing next to our husbands?

Melanie Benjamin

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Would my son love me, when he was old enough to know what love meant?

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... afraid of everything because nothing truly terrible had happened to me, yet.

Melanie Benjamin

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I still can't stop marveling that this same boy chose me; and I'm glad that I can't, for we should rejoice in being seen, needed. Loved.

Melanie Benjamin

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