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Ahhh that's horrible!! Romper has done such beautiful, important work on mothering. And who the f knows? is truly the only honest way to end any kind of parenting advice!

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amen. it's basically the thesis of my book :)

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Jul 17Liked by Sarah Wheeler

Romper was a really wonderful place on the internet. I won the People’s Choice award for Raising Mothers a few years back and the support from April and Elizabeth was truly rare.

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I'm so glad to hear you say that. I also wonder about where we can find representation and broad voices in the parenting discourse, so we don't believe that one small micro-culture's experience is the ONLY experience.

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Nooo. Wtf. I’m so sorry.

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thanks pal. more time to focus on our platonic cruising instruction manual!

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this zine needs to happen.

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Oh no so sorry Sarah- this truly sucks

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Jul 17Liked by Sarah Wheeler

Oh no! Terrible news!

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Jul 17Liked by Sarah Wheeler

Thank you for this. 😭❤️ I have adored working with Elizabeth and everyone at Romper and am crushed.

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and your writing there has been so tremendous! i would read sex and the single mom all by itself. substack???

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Jul 17Liked by Sarah Wheeler

That’s what I’m gonna try to do! Thank you for the support! Please let me know how I can support you as well. (ED: I dream of pulling all of these amazing writers together and starting our own fuckin parenting site!)

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F yes!

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If you do that, please hire me to do your web design!

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Rebecca! Sarah! I’m so sorry to hear this.

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ugh, hadn't heard this and just pinged Meaghan about my column idea again today. Interesting timing. Such a bummer. I loved what they were doing. Every time one of these places shutters, I think about trying to recreate it here on Substack.

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ahh man, that's crap news - but here's to finding other ways to getting the message(s) out.

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No!! Why does all the good internet always go away 😭

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This is so sad. I enjoy Romper so much. What a loss.

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