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My dream for the Time cover

By Joanna Weiss

 |  Globe Columnist  

  May 11, 2012

Here is what I want for Mother’s Day: Silence. Not from my kids, who are physiologically incapable of silence, but from other mothers — the ones who publish self-aggrandizing quasi-confessional books, who attack each other in comments at the bottom of blog posts, and who appear on the covers of magazines, with perfectly coiffed hair and perfectly-applied lip gloss and perhaps a preschool-aged son attached to their breasts, gazing at the camera with a look that says, “You got a problem with this?”

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