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It's all too easy when talking about female gymnasts to fall into the trap of infantilizing them, spending more time worrying more about female vulnerability than we do celebrating female strength.

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What's endlessly complicated in thinking about women's gymnastics is the way that vulnerability and power are threaded through the sport.

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A mother, after all, is your entry into the world. She is the shell in which you divide and become a life. Waking up in a world without her is like waking up in a world without sky: unimaginable.

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Many Americans don't mourn in public anymore - we don't wear black, we don't beat our chests and wail.

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I envy my Jewish friends the ritual of saying kaddish - a ritual that seems perfectly conceived, with its built-in support group and its ceremonious designation of time each day devoted to remembering the lost person.

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This is part of the complexity of grief: A piece of you recognizes it is an extreme state, an altered state, yet a large part of you is entirely subject to its demands.

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I am the indoctrinated child of two lapsed Irish Catholics. Which is to say: I am not religious.

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But when my mother died, I found that I did not believe that she was gone.

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The truth is, I need to experience my mother's presence in the world around me and not just in my head.

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Like my mother before me, I have always been a good speller.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: Unknown

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