Elissa Altman on navigating the Motherland
How We Live Now with Katherine May
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The Relationship Between My Mother and My Mother
"My mother is tall or was tall and and lanky and thin and the kind of person you can drape a burlap sack over and it looks like she's wearing hot couture," he says. "She did not know that she was pregnant with me for six months um and she is that sort of disconnected from her body and the workings of her body." He adds: "From the first time I was able to say the word no to her and children learned to say no usually in earnest when they're about 10 or 11 years old certainly girls do my mum"
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