Back in 2016 when we were reading submissions for our first anthology, several essays immediately jumped off the page…
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What Really Matters
Every day for the first two weeks of my twins’ lives, I checked their statistics with the NICU’s staff nurses…
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Forgotten Anniversaries
These last few weeks I’ve had the nagging feeling that I’ve forgotten someone’s birthday, someone close to me. In other…
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Telling My Twins Their Birth Story Changed Their Relationship
For the first five years of my identical twin boys’ lives, I couldn’t tell another adult their birth story without…
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The Unexpected Firsts
Editor’s note: Co-editor Alison wrote this four days after her twins were born in September 2014. ********************* During my twin…
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