Breast-fed babies have lower instances of colds and viruses. When they do get sick, they are often able to recover more quickly because the mothers body produces antibodies specific to the babys infection. This is an idea that has literally kept me up for hours at night. How exactly is my body able to write my daughter a prescription for her illness without a diagnosis?

“Breast-fed babies have lower instances of colds and viruses. When they do get sick, they are often able to recover more quickly because the mother’s body produces antibodies specific to the baby’s infection. This is an idea that has literally kept me up for hours at night. How exactly is my body able to write my daughter a prescription for her illness without a diagnosis?” LILY PADULA

Seriously, if you haven’t read this amazing piece by Angela, you need to get with the program. During the editing process, the first time I got to the end I started crying, and I felt a little embarrassed about it, because I wouldn’t have been able to explain it, because they weren’t sadness tears, they were some other kind of tears, and thankfully I was alone in my office and no one could see me.

Then I read it again and I got to the end and I starting crying again. Which is weird because I knew what was coming. After it came out in print, I read it again, because reading something in print and reading it online are different, and I started crying again. I don’t know what it is—the order of the words, the humor, the awe, the tenderness, the thought of Angela awake in the middle of the night, the thought of her daughter in her arms… goddamn it, I’m going to start crying again.

Christopher Frizzelle was The Stranger's print editor, and first joined the staff in 2003. He was the editor-in-chief from 2007 to 2016, and edited the story by Eli Sanders that won a 2012 Pulitzer...