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Oh Elizabeth, THANK YOU! For finding the words, for writing them, for knowing that the people trying to insist this mass murder of babies is justified, are just dead wrong. I can barely write anything these days, because just carrying on with my life in the face of this horror seems ludicrous, and yet what else can we do but take the next breath, do the next indicated thing, keep living, while so many keep dying. Thank you for your humanity, for helping me understand that I'm not crazy, I'm seeing what I'm seeing, the nightmare is really happening, even if outside my window the leaves turn peacefully, a world away from gray bodies being pulled from the rubble, the sobbing fathers, mothers, children, the hollow eyed doctors, and everyone starving, everyone parched. And now it is raining here, and all I can think in that the people of Gaza are forbidden to collect rainwater, as by legal statute it belongs to the Israeli government. How can this be?

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It sickens me to know, to see, to understand, that the world cares nothing for children, that they are disposable, collateral damage. I want to scream at someone, but to who? When I was pregnant with my middle daughter, children were dying in a war. When I was pregnant with Katie, children were dying in a different war. Why the fuck is this still going on?

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