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Sophie Heawood (Replay): What To Expect When You Weren't Expecting To Be Expecting

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A Single Mum and a Black Mum in Brooklyn

When my daughter was getting to the reading book stage I bought out all those groovy books about different families that I know now surely exists. Brooklyn is probably the most right-on place of all so in Brooklyn I was getting great books about a black single mum and her daughter who were the closest I found to our experience which is great but also ridiculous. There is a real porosity of stuff and what broke my heart was that as soon as my daughter was old enough to play with little you know playing a bill lego dollies herself she would be like this is the this personSoon as she got to that age every single game she invented had a mummy and a daddy and the two kids

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