I love you as the mother of my child": the kiss of death.Mot... - Suzanne Finnamore, Split: A Memoir of Divorce

"I love you as the mother of my child": the kiss of death.Mother of His Child: demotion. I am beginning to see this truism: Mothers are not always wives. I have been stripped of a piece of self."

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