Eldest Daughter

Eldest Daughter

Before the Book

This Bitch

Shame, selective reduction, community.

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Kristin Diversi
Mar 02, 2026
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Someone, somewhere, has looked at me handing out beige metaphors or flatly refusing to make a face and thought: this bitch.

Fair enough. I have been called worse.

Selfish. Convenient — meaning, I chose not to suffer in the way they had decided I should. A murderer, occasionally, by people who have clearly never had to make a decision harder than a dinner…

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