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In June 1970, I was unprepared when my first child was born with a serious birth defect. Before I was told about
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This project had a simple beginning. I was forty-five when I invited my seventy-year-old mother to explore our different memories of our
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If we don’t choose ourselves, who will? Choosing ourselves means taking ourselves seriously. Making our own wishes and needs central in our
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Recently, someone referred to my son’s birth defect as a “hare lip.” I winced. Why? Because I’ve heard too many jokes about
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We’ve had some feedback that my poem Let Us Be Clear feels like a caveat to the book, even undermining our story
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People ask about the title of the memoir I wrote with my son Jim. The phrase Choosing Ourselves occurs in my narrative
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