Careful the Tale You Tell (Children Will Listen)
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It had never occurred to her before, to be someone's mother. To have a child, a piece of herself separate and apart. Or, moments during the seven years it takes MacKenzie to become a mother.
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Mac isn’t dying this time, but he’s still holding her hand.
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Five things that Will knows about his six week old daughter.
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Leona Lansing comes to collect her grandchild.
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The way his ears are ringing and the fact that he’s lying on top of the shattered remnants of the window that was, only moments ago, in front of him leads Will to believe that he can make only one conclusion: there’s been an explosion.
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Mac's first Mother's Day.
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- Part 3 of To All Things There is a Season
- Part 6 of Careful the Tale You Tell (Children Will Listen)
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I think this year is our dress rehearsal and I really don’t wanna screw it up. Late into the night (or very early in the morning) Will and Mac are trying to get ready for Charlotte's first Christmas.
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The bedroom door opens, banging back against the wall – Charlie hasn’t quite grasped the concept of twist and push, tending to place too much emphasis on the pushpushpush aspect of getting through the barrier in front of her – and her toddler runs into the room with her father steps behind her, murmuring his ever-constant reminder of gentle, gentle, gentle.
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No one tells you about high fevers, or coughs that won’t stop, or how they'll shake a baby’s entire body. Will's second Father's Day.
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- Part 4 of To All Things There is a Season
- Part 9 of Careful the Tale You Tell (Children Will Listen)
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I'm dead. Will is going to punt me off the balcony. Five minutes before broadcast, Jim loses track of Charlotte.
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- Part 5 of To All Things There is a Season
- Part 10 of Careful the Tale You Tell (Children Will Listen)
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“It wasn’t planned?” Habib asks, instead of berating him for skipping seven and a half months’ worth of appointments. Although, Will thinks, after the four year stretch where he just ignored psychiatric care sum total, him showing up in the vague aftermath of any personal problem is an impressive feat of self-awareness.
Three weeks after the ultrasound technician tells them it's a boy, Will finds himself back in therapy.
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“I want a karat for each pound, Billy.” The birth of Teddy McAvoy.
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Blonde curls falling out of her braid and her pajamas askew, she appears in the doorway.
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“She’s a genius. Our daughter is a genius.” The McAvoys, 2019.
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They first met sixteen years ago. He first saw her naked six weeks later, after what was either their third date or their fifth, depending on the metric.
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Three small children, a very loud blizzard, and one queen-sized bed. The McAvoys, 2021.
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When she’s about halfway through the front section of the Times, she hears a small pair of feet walk down the stairs, through the hall, and stop. Looking up, she sees her five-year-old son smiling at her from the doorway.
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Mac isn’t sure if she can pinpoint exactly where worry bubbles over into incandescent rage — possibly around the time Charlotte gets the words won’t stop touching me out of her mouth the second time, maybe sooner — but she controls it, if only for her daughter’s sake.
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