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Great metaphor. Motherhood as marathon is pretty endlessly useful as a mental exercise in how to think about mothering as a whole human. (Also: I need to find a neighbor mom friend like you. I love reading and I desperately want to get back into lifting. I need help though because my high school body is most decidedly not my 39-year-old body.)

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Just what I needed to read this morning ❤️‍🔥

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Inspiring post, thank you, Helen! Totally agree about the aspirational value of mommy influencers.

I am just confused by this one sentence: "There would be no Mikhail Baryshnikov without Alexander Pushkin." Isn't one a dancer and the other a poet?

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I understand the confusion! There are two Alexander Pushkins. One was a poet, the other a ballet dancer and mentor to MB

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