Things I Now Know…

I am not a skinny girl. I have history on my bones. And babies and heartache and love.I am mother earth. I am my own homeland. The circumference of my thighs holds multiple worlds that only the bravest can navigate.

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Madame Weebles on December 30, 2013 at 1:00 pm

I love this. I too am not a skinny girl. More of us not-skinny girls should embrace ourselves and all we are and have been.

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