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The birth of your first child

An inability to birth your first child

The Holocaust (films, television, literature; depictions of)

The Holocaust (your grandmother's memories of)

Completing your therapy worksheets

Choosing not to complete your therapy worksheets

Your death (before his)

His death (before yours)

Peeling a blood orange on your hotel bedspread in Como to share with him, not washing your hands after you finish

A fever, followed by a wet cough

The hottest summer on record (reached)

The hottest summer on record (to come)

Your most recent orgasm (with him)

Your most recent orgasm (alone)

Results of the genetic testing panels (his)

Results of the genetic testing panels (yours)

Lake Michigan in winter, biking towards

A red leaf tucked in your pocket and found three weeks later, crushed, once the rest have fallen

The first time your child feels pool water before learning how to swim

The first time your child sees Lake Michigan in winter

Your first trip to the Delaware beaches as an infant and touching the Atlantic

Your mother's reaction upon learning she was pregnant with her first child (you)

First frost covering your new garden (annuals)

First frost covering your new garden (perennials)