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She Would Say

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by Elizabeth Benedict

I love you to distraction, she would say. I love you beyond love.

Do you love Daddy too?

Sure.

But you love me more?

Of course. All mommies love their children more than mommies love daddies and daddies love mommies. That’s a law of nature.

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Elizabeth Benedict’s five novels include Slow Dancing, which was a finalist for the 1985 National Book Award for a first work of fiction. Her nonfiction includes The Joy of Writing Sex: A Guide for Fiction Writers, and she contributes essays and articles to many national periodicals. She edited the anthology Mentors, Muses & Monsters: 30 Writers on the People Who Changed Their Lives and lives in New York and the Boston area.

Photograph by Emma Dodge Hanson.
Fall 2010

Fall 2010

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