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Exploring what exists in the middle - of parenting, of health, of life. Fourteen years into raising a child with severe epilepsy, I am always looking for the both-ness: the many ways we end up a sum of our best luck and worst experiences.

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jen parker is a writer living in the bay area with her husband, 4 kids and 0 dogs. her family had a fish that seemed neglect-proof, but it died. please don't tell her youngest.

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