Still Christmas

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Paula Mathieu

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This nonfiction essay recounts the story of a sister I never knew I had, and how I ended up inadvertently copying my mother’s pattern of keeping a secret about my own pregnancy. But it’s also an essay of how to write about silence, how families adopt patterns of silence, and how being a teacher of writing is my effort to break a pattern of secrets and shame.

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