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No one wants to mother more vigilantly than a woman who is childless and wishes she wasn’t.

Elizabeth Berg

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Elizabeth Berg
Age: 75
Born: 1948
Born: December 2
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St Paul
Minnesota
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Mother
Vigilantly
Childless
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I cried until my eyes swelled shut, and then I slept, a black, dreamless sleep from which I awoke amazingly refreshed, at least until I remembered.
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