Do you remember the children’s book by P.D. Eastman, in which a baby bird wanders the world asking, Are you my mother? Searching for the source of his existence, he mistakes strangers and machines for something that might care for him. I, too, spent years searching, first for a mother’s warmth, then for something I couldn’t nam…
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