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What is your deepest, darkest fear?
Submitted by [Susan].

That one day, my husband will turn to me and say, "JESUS CHRIST, WOMAN, JUST SHUT UP FOR A MINUTE."

In truth the deepest, darkest fear for me is probably exactly the same as for every other mother, and it is so deep and dark that it is as close to unthinkable and unspeakable as it could be, because to speak it or think it seems to be--in some admittedly Oprah way--to invite its possibility.  But there is no bigger fear than the fear that something irrevocable and terrible will happen to your child.  It's unbearable even to think it.  My husband and I and my mom have all joked, because my son is very active and something of a daredevil who cannot wait to push boundaries and go up one more step on the ladder, that broken bones are fine, we expect them, we can deal with them, we'll all survive them--just please no head trauma.