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Assistant professor and a mother to a young daughter, I am learning to balance my personal and professional life.
I jokingly referred to myself as an ‘almost’ single mother: who is married to a father and yet, undertakes the majority of the caregiving responsibility, partly out of choice and partly due to the circumstances!
After the coursework officially ended, I breathed a sigh of relief. If only I had known that this was just the beginning of a very long struggle.
At the age of 60, my mother started earning her own money. It instilled a sense of pride and confidence in her that I could never see earlier.
Being a chubby girl who hated her body, all my life, it took my pregnancy for me to actually appreciate and love my body for what it was!
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