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Heather Hutchison

Heather Hutchison is a lover of stories. Your stories. Hers. Her children’s. She believes each of us have purpose, and each of us have something to teach within our life stories. Heather lives in Stafford, VA with her four energetic children, two tuxedo cats and two chirpy cockatiels.

The labor that bore me
EssaySeptember 14, 2016

The labor that bore me

By Heather Hutchison

I have birthed four children. Any mother will tell you that birth is a labor of love and insist that the memory of the…

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Topology Magazine is a place for active contemplation through prose, poetry, and art: the produce of thoughtful labor in the places where we find ourselves. Each person is inextricably tied to their physical location, and Topology cultivates that connection by publishing work which explicitly or implicitly recognizes the influence of place. Read more …

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