Elizabeth Benedict’s numerous novels include Slow Dancing and Almost, and her nonfiction works include Rewriting Illness: A View of My Own (Mandel Vilar, 2023) and The Joy of Writing Sex: A Guide for Fiction Writers. Benedict has also edited three anthologies, Mentors, Muses & Monsters: 30 Writers on the People Who Changed Their Lives, What My Mother Gave Me: 31 Women on the Gifts That Mattered Most, and Me, My Hair and I: 27 Women Untangle an Obsession. She lives in New York City.

She Would Say

An iStory

by Elizabeth Benedict

I love you to distraction, she would say. I love you beyond love.

Do you love Daddy too?

Sure.

But you love me more?

Of course. All mommies love their children more than mommies love daddies and daddies love mommies. That’s a law of nature.

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