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Jodie Mortag

Waiting
Jodie Mortag Short Nonfiction

Waiting

October 27, 2020

I think about my mother in the garden hilling green beans, and I asked her if I could go on birth control, and she didn’t say anything, which meant “yes,” which meant “no,” which meant, “I’m hilling beans right now.

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