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I'm posting alot...buuuuuut, This post by catelin is worth it:

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This is what I heard someone call my little boy today. I didn’t ignore it. I asked. I glared. What did you say? The kid muttered under his breath. Nothing. We walked to the car and he was quiet. He’s a boy who takes everything into himself. When he shares, it’s a gift. It has a meaning beyond what it is.

I looked at him, my beautiful nine-year-old boy who grew in my belly as I spent endless hours working with men and women dying of AIDS in Los Angeles. The baby that I jostled and jiggled when I was nine months pregnant, shaking my fat little ass at the Dance-a-thon. All the beautiful queens circled around me under the disco ball and rubbed my belly just like the old Russian women at the K-Mart by the Farmer’s Market. I remember looking at them, these glittering beautiful people smiling and wishing me luck. They are celebrating you, I said to my unborn child. They are celebrating life. It was one of the few nights that I didn’t have to face the practical realities of the other side of the coin, the side where I watched my friends wasting away to nothing.

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[Also, a neat spin-off post of this by towanda on Motherhood and Feminism.]

Comments

[maymorning.livejournal.com]

Thanks for linking that. I went and read the original entry and it's very moving. (((hugs)))

[fatuorum.livejournal.com]

Read the original earlier, thanks for the link to the spin-off! Very thought provoking stuff here.

[suzvoy.livejournal.com]

Ohhhh. That's BEAUTIFUL.

[way2busymom.livejournal.com]

Wonderful link. Thank you for sharing it.

[marksykins.livejournal.com]

Thank you for linking that! It gave me a lot to think about.