"When people ask, you say you have no children yet. But in your head, you count us”

"We are your neshamalehs. We are a paradox. We are the easiest children and we are the hardest children. We have never kept you up at night with our wails. And yet we have kept you up on so many nights as the tears pour from your own eyes. Your arms are empty. Your house is quiet. When people ask, you say you have no children yet. But in your head, you count us.”

—Azamra Cohen

The Children You Never Knew

(Originally featured in Family First, Issue 733)