Bright year-old Nika lives with her hardworking father and her troubled sister Vesna 20 in a colourless suburb of Melbourne. Grieving after the loss of her mother, Nika would give anything to be closer with Vesna, who, like their father, is lost in struggles of her own. When Nika discovers Vesna is pregnant, she throws herself into preparations for the arrival of the newborn, hoping that Vesna could eventually become a mother not only for the baby but for her. Soon after the baby is born, Vesna disappears. Nika must offer to the baby the warmth, affection and love she longs for herself. Woven through this story are the textures, dreams and feelings of my childhood. Or rather, of the early years when I suddenly started to feel much older than I really was, in a family where the parental roles were reversed and the boundaries blurred. It took me decades to realize that this early maturity was only a shield. I am drawn to explore the tenuous nature of these early coping mechanisms. In Vesna we see suburban, working class Melbourne through the eyes of Nika, a year-old Slovenian, at the moment when childhood is cut short.
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In my view, baptism at 8 is just a variation on infant baptism. For me this has been an opportunity to increase my love, tolerance, compassion and acceptance. But we'd like to have children soon, so I'm looking forward to reading through the archives of your blog to see how you've made it work. What upsets me most is that he didn't realize it was my birthday, or a big one and then that his reaction was to get defensive about his plans rather than offer an alternative for celebrating with me. Would she be okay spending a Sunday to an atheist space with you. I am so happy to not be working in the medical field any more. That conversation prompted me to find and read through this sub, and there's some seriously disturbing shit here. In the Garden of Eden, Eve may have introduced sin into the world, but ultimately her actions worked out for good because it allowed all of us to be born and tested in this telestial state. Mormon women greatly value sincerity of purpose. The fact that your guy came right out and said he didn't care what you thought and that we was going to spend his money and time the way he wanted indicates that he still thinks of himself as single.
