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A tornado was coming. I was holding my baby, and a tornado was coming.

The author, her husband and their infant were on the road in rural Alabama when a deadly string of storms struck, forever altering how she viewed parenting.

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(Illustration by Shikha Subramaniam/The Washington Post)
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The following is adapted and excerpted from “Foxes for Everybody: Twenty-Four Hours of Early Motherhood,” to be published by Northwestern University Press on Jan. 15.

What, I wondered, was wrong with me?

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