And the silence held by the reflective parent who could not take space can be reinterpreted as absence. And in the absence of context, silence becomes an abandonment where the memories never made get already discarded.

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...allowing the experiment, allowing the acceptance, allowing the difference, and holding it all with curiosity and compassion.

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