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This line points to the unequal labor hidden inside caregiving. It can be read as a wry comment on how family life or motherhood is romanticized from the outside, while the ordinary, messy work falls to one person, which lands clearly in any home where appreciation and responsibility are not shared equally.
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Originally said in English.
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