I am the filling in the sandwich

parents to the left of me, teens to the right - stuck in the middle

You think you’re so special, right? So unique and kooky and weird and then things happen to you in life that everyone said would happen and you think: hmm. I see. I’m just a blob like everyone else.

It happened when I was pregnant with my first child, who is now 14. All the things happened: the nausea, the fatness, the breathlessness, the hair loss, the heartburn. I was just humanity and biology’s plaything!

And now this.