Laura Lynn Brown is the author of Everything That Makes You Mom: A Bouquet of Memories. Her writing has appeared in The Iowa Review, Slate, Art House America, Cimarron Review, Every Day Poems and elsewhere. She works as a copy editor at a daily newspaper. You can follow her at her blog and on Twitter.
Fact: My daughter’s pregnant.
Focusing on what it means for me: I’m going to be a grandma.
Statement of fact that also contains amazement: My daughter is growing a person inside her.
If this bag were packed with my recurring dreams, it would have many of the common ones: it’s exam day at school and I am unprepared. I am in public wearing my pajamas, or something even more informal. My teeth are loosening as I speak. Something is chasing me in the dark and I can’t see where I’m going.
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