CHAPTER 8
PREP FOR THE PARADOX
“Any healthy, married woman who voluntarily chooses not to have children is just selfish.”
I can still remember the sting of my mother’s words as if I had swum face first into an angry jellyfish. After months of avoiding the topic, I had finally admitted that Hartman and I had decided to live our lives child-free, by choice. Stuttering, with my heart beating out of my chest, I reminded her of our expanding clan of nieces, nephews, godchildren, and sweet second cousins up and down the East Coast, from the Irish Gargans of Boston to the Southern Faulkners of Charlotte. I reminded her how much I had cherished my big sister role helping her and my dad raise my 11-years-younger sister and fast-forward to today how we ...
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