Beloved

[tensleep]

I just finished reading Toni Morrison's Beloved in preparation for my exams. I read it just three or so years ago and don't remember it bothering me so much. I am literally trying not to throw up right now. In the coffee shop today I almost started bawling - the deep kind that make weird noises. I held it back. I'm trying to make notes but I just

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[kdotdammit]

What was amazing to me was how much my perception of the novel changed after I became a mom. I read it when it first came out, but then I also read it after having Bean. I loved it both times, but it moved me so deeply after having a daughter of my own. Makes me want to read it again now.