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Growing up, I knew two things: I wanted to be a mother and to live abroad one day.Both came true when I met my Danish husband while traveling solo almost a decade ago. Not long after, I moved from New York City to Copenhagen, which was ranked first in the…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Kruthika Jayatheertha, a millennial based in Bangalore, India. It has been edited for length and clarity.In October 2024, my husband and I welcomed our first child into the world. I took a six-month maternity leave, which was provided through my senior…
“Do you think there is a heaven?” my 99-year-old grandma, who was a devout Catholic, asked me one of the last times I saw her alive. It was June of 2019, and my mom and I had driven south to Dyersburg, TN, to visit her in the long-term care facility…
