American - Journalist | April 14, 1971 -
Having grown up Catholic, my prayers were scripted - memorized and deployed in church and before bed. As a young adult, I veered off script and talked to God more plainly. And by 'talked to,' I mean that I basically asked for things to turn out the way I wanted them to.
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I asked God for a healthy baby. An answer arrived in my daughter.
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I am an approval junkie.
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Approval makes the world go round, even if many of us want to transcend our hunger for it.
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For weeks I ran through a mental inventory of my closet. Did I want to wear something new - to christen it and forever make it The Divorce Dress?
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Whenever I told women - friends or acquaintances - that I had to go to divorce court, they'd invariably, without skipping a beat, ask, 'What are you going to wear?' It was like instant female solidarity: of course it mattered what I was going to wear.
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Divorce court seemed to inspire in my girlfriends 1940s-era fashion fantasies, not only for me, but for themselves.
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Am I an elitist because I like wine?
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It was my husband who had to open all the baby shower gifts which were haunting me in their candy-colored gift wrap - thank you notes demanding to be written.
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I have no problem being full-term pregnant and do not understand women who say, 'I can't wait to get this baby out of me!'
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I know how much sleep I need, how much time on the elliptical I need, and how much chocolate that buys me.
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Whether you plan to labor with an epidural or the Pitocin Fairy pins you down or you end up having an emergency C-section, there are still choices you can make throughout your entire birth experience that allow you to feel some control over what is probably the most dramatic day of your life.
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