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Jessica.
Writer, mother, and quiet observer of the sacred ordinary.
I write for the woman in the soft middle — the one rebuilding herself in the in-between hours, between school pickups and second cups of coffee. Just Jessica is a place for essays that don't ask you to perform, only to come home to yourself.