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Vain are the thousand creeds That move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main.

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Perhaps the unattached, the unwanted, the unloved, could grow to give love as lushly as anyone else.

Giving, Grow, Grows, Love, Lushly, Maternal Love
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Hate can be passionate or disengaged; it can come from dislike but also from fear.

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Anyone can grow into something beautiful.

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If it was true that moss did not have roots, and maternal love could grow spontaneously, as if from nothing, perhaps I had been wrong to believe myself unfit to raise my daughter. Perhaps the unattached, the unwanted, the unloved, could grow to give love as lushly as anyone else.

Believe, Daughter, Roots, Spontaneously, Wrong

She was perfect. I knew this the moment she emerged from my body, white and wet and wailing. Beyond the requisite ten fingers and ten toes, the beating heart, the lungs inhaling and exhaling oxygen, my daughter knew how to scream. She knew how to make herself heard. She knew how to reach out and latch on. She knew what she needed to do to survive. I didn’t know how it was possible that such perfection could have developed within a body as flawed as my own, but when I looked into her face, I saw that it clearly was.

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Your behavior is a choice; it isn’t who you are.

Behavior, Choice, Choices, Who You Are
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