On Only Children 1️⃣

🚨 this week's essay is about grief 🚨

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A while back, while all of this was still going on, I met a fellow academic at a party. We chatted briefly about our areas of interest, and another person at the table piped up with a friendly plug for my non-academic work, aka, this very Mom Blog. 

“Oh,” said the fellow …