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Squeezing Every Last Blessed Drop of Self From these last 24 hours, This most Precious Jewel Of no expectation, Neither Wife Nor Mother But a third thing I can’t Quite Put my Finger On.

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elizabeth-kelly

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elizabeth-kelly

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Oct 19, 2025

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Notes: Home alone for the first time in memory and the last time in the foreseeable future
Tags: #wife #mother #woman #self #identity #personhood #alone

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