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Jamilia Grier

Luxury, kids, and the lie I stopped believing


Hi friend, There is a story women like us are handed early, usually by people who mean well: that children are the end of the "luxurious life." That once they arrive, the passport gets quieter, the horizon comes closer, and the woman who moved across the world folds herself into smaller rooms. I have not found that to be true. Last weekend my husband and I took the girls into the desert outside Abu Dhabi — Al Wathba, where the dunes turn gold an hour before sunset and the quiet is a kind of...
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