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Relish Language

Élan Loves Expression

Aug 21, 2021

8 min read

Experiencing death and marking the loss

The Funeral of Innocence

My idealism railing against a young girl’s upbringing in a foreign country

A side-view of a little girl, barely the height of the windowsill, wearing a pink dress holding out a string of pearls as if determining to put them around her neck. Her hair short and wavy but maturely coiffed like a woman’s but with a barrette. A representative photo of a girl growing up too fast against more idealistic fashion. — Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash

She said that she didn’t ever want to be pregnant because she concluded that having children must be a nuisance, and there was this particular term that she used to announce this in her native language that…

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