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Spring, 2008
Volume II Issue 1 copyright by College
Mom Magazine and Katherine Arnoldi.
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"I
was an eighties kid bred on "Papa Don't Preach" and
I was determined I was going to be a novelist and a mom. " |
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"What radical advice.
Be a role model by living for
yourself as well as your child. "
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------Margaux
Fragoso, PhD student mom |
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College
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Margaux
Fragaso
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From Discouragement to Triumph! |
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"That's all over with
now," my father said when I discovered I was pregnant after
being accepted to three graduate schools in creative writing:
Sarah Lawrence College, Spalding University in Kentucky, and
Binghamton University in upstate New York.
Well, I was an eighties kid bred on "Papa Don't Preach"
and I was determined I was going to be a novelist and a mom.
 Even
if it meant driving three hours from New Jersey to upstate New
York my first year of master's coursework, pumping breast milk
in my car with a First Years double pump, putting it in labeled
Ziploc bags during the long Binghamton winter months, and getting
up at three and four in the morning to work on my novel.
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Now five years
later, I am in the third year of my PhD at Binghamton University
looking for an agent for my novel Disrepair. My daughter
is four years old, attends the campus preschool, and likes to
pretend the room is her office and she has to go to "work"
reading her picture books. It makes me to think back to my undergraduate
professor and mentor Edvige Giunta's advice on first learning
I was pregnant: "The most important
thing for you to be for your children is a role model. You would
never want your daughter to give up what she wanted most, right?" |
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What radical advice. Be a role model
by living for yourself as well as your child. Apparently, my
father wasn't raised to believe moms could do that.
---Margaux Fragoso
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