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Single Mother
By Ali Blanco
She referred to me as a single mother.
Not in a bad way,
She merely meant that I was singleUnmarried.
And I am called “mother.”
But the words took me aback,
Because truthfully I have not had a single moment in over a decade.
Stolen moments
Of singleness.
Of solitude.
But at all times I am neither single nor mother.
I am three.
I am both.
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