the Clues
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Holding a Boundary Is Not the Same as Holding a Grudge
My mother called my baby girl chunky. I asked her to stop. She said it again at the baptism. I told myself I'd set a boundary, but I hadn't. Here's what I actually had, and what it cost me to keep it for thirty years.