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Trying... to hope

Trying... to hope

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Emma Barnett
Jun 25, 2022
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I now have a difficult relationship with hope.

It was not something I had thought about prior to a life of trying and failing to have babies. Even prior to getting doctors involved the first (and only) time around, those two and half years were filled with the stuff. Or rather false hope.

Every time you pull your knickers …

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