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I am waiting for my baby

I am waiting for my baby

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Suzanne Moore
Nov 02, 2021
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I am waiting…for a child to be born.

My daughter’s child.

I am thinking about how strange this is. And how commonplace.

“Betwixt and between”. Victor Turner was an anthropologist who in 1967 developed the idea of liminality by observing the rituals of the Ndembu tribe in Central Africa. Liminality is a state between states, a transitional state. He was pic…

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