Becoming
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Regret may line the path behind her, but it does not get to choose the direction of the next step.
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Becoming means naming who she is now without softening it, and deciding which old versions no longer get to come along.
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Some feelings live between grief, longing, relief, and fear—too complicated for one word and too real to ignore.
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An unfinished sentence becomes a declaration of everything survival, grief, motherhood, and becoming have made her.
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Home stops being a place when one person becomes the quiet safety every road had been trying to lead toward.
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She is not only what happened to her; she is every scar, lesson, mistake, and second chance that kept moving forward.
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The questions changed from who will love me to what part of myself I buried, and suddenly the cards became kinder.
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The work may not come with a paycheck, but every poem and page is building something real one sentence at a time.
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Two friends learn grief together and keep choosing each other through hospital rooms, cemeteries, laughter, and the years still ahead.
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A five-year-old smile and a sleeping newborn become the first page of a family story no one knew would move so quickly.
Between Bruises & Blooms 