I've been holding onto these photos for a couple of months now, wanting to write - again - about this time in my girl's life, this time between little girlhood and young womanhood. It is sometimes like living with two different people, and I try and remember what that felt like, being pulled in two directions at that age. I find myself drawn to women with girls older than mine, who have passed through adolescence, wanting to know how it is for them, what their relationship was like at this point, how they did their best by their blossoming girls. I am reading and thinking and paying attention to this one in particular these days...
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I would like for you to know her - she is really a remarkable young girl, quick to laugh a huge laugh, willing to ask any question of you, wanting you to like her and wanting to know what makes you tick. She is half wild child and half wise child and I'm never completely sure who I'll be spending my day with, but maybe that's the beauty to embrace these days, the complexity of this special time in her life.
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Such sparkle and beauty. My heart is thumping hard these days.
5 comments:
And her heart is just as beautiful as she is outside. A golden child, for sure.
She is all that is beauty and light. She is an amazing girl and I am proud to know her!!!
Well I loved the tween and teen years. An amazing ride as they grow and become more fully the individuals that they already are.
That 'air cut is a great, dramatic summer cut!
Makes me cry, a happy cry. I'm loving this time with you, and with her. magic time...
I wish I knew her!
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