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Baked salmon garnished with asparagus and tomatoes with herbs

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Carly Rose Elson is a marketer by day,an MFA student by night and a round-the-clock mom of a three-month-old wonder boy.Her work has appeared in Electric Literature.

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Breastfeeding Changed My Feelings About My Marriage and Myself

Carly Rose Elson

I was changing my two-week-old son's diaper when I looked up and saw fresh blood pooled around his head.Its source was unclear.His serene moonbeam face reflected nothing of the guilt-stricken… panic that seized my soul.I was sure he was dying.Of course he was dying.He was being taken from me because I did not love him enough,because,though it took me two years to conceive him,now that he was here,the transition to motherhood had not felt as natural as I…>> Read More

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I Decided to Get a New Nose,and My Mom Was My Hero

Carly Rose Elson

wedding dress are placed on the bed,preparations for the wedding

"I'm nervous," I said,collapsing onto the couch."I hope this isn't a giant mistake."It was,after all,surgery,on my face.I had chosen this path for myself,had paid for it,… had decided that I didn't want to think about my larger-than-is-proportional-to-my-face nose anymore.I tried to convince myself that,given my very deliberate decision,I wasn't particularly entitled to anxiousness,self-pity or feelings of impending doom.But the body doesn't weigh your self-imposed trauma against the traumas of the world when deciding how much it…>> Read More

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