When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is …

Jodi Picoult
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When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a piece of yourself inside her, because sometimes that is what it takes to claim. ✨ Jodi Picoult (2007). Vanishing acts, p.66, Simon and Schuster
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When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a piece of yourself inside her, because sometimes that is what it takes to claim. ✨ Jodi Picoult (2007). Vanishing acts, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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