April Linacre, Identity is Mother (PEOPLE 2024)

I took this photo when my best friend was pregnant with twins. She has told me since giving birth the person she was before being a Mother ceased to exist. Who she was is no more, her identity now and forever is Mother. Both a wonderfully beautiful and heartbreakingly sad reality. While pregnant she was in the blissful state between who she was and who she would become. That time now forever frozen in this image.

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