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Motherhood Selena Raygoza Motherhood Selena Raygoza

Expecting

I expected to like being a mother. 

I expected to be good at being a mother.

I expected to raise children who would appreciate that I wasn’t an embarrassment, not obese or out of style, or driving an old beat up Buick.

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