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Or, at least, one of them<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In that moment I tried to imagine my little girl as a teen-ager, sobbing in my arms because she thought she was ugly, or because she was lonely, or because someone had been cruel and wounded her heart. I remember that I could just barely imagine the sadness, and it took my breath away.<\/p>\n

These days I live with that kind of pain all the time.<\/p>\n

Rrg. Makes me cringe and clench my fists just to think of it now. What it will be like then, I can’t imagine, and don’t even want to think of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Or, at least, one of them. In that moment I tried to imagine my little girl as a teen-ager, sobbing in my arms because she thought she was ugly, or…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parenting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":35167,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/24\/quoth-margie-thirty-five-min.html","url_meta":{"origin":7359,"position":0},"title":"Quoth Margie: “Thirty-five min…","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 24-May-13 11:25pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Quoth Margie: \"Thirty-five minutes, we have a teen-ager.\" GAH!","rel":"","context":"In "~Tweets"","block_context":{"text":"~Tweets","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/tweets"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":21456,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/05\/saving-dcs-movie-franchises.html","url_meta":{"origin":7359,"position":1},"title":"Saving DC’s movie franchises","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 5-Jul-11 7:09pm","format":false,"excerpt":"IO9 asks Which DC Comics character could save DC\u2019s non-Batman\/Superman movies? 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