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"But you can adopt," she suggests. "You can babysit."
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"We can't adopt," Dewey says. "We're poor. They'd never give us a baby."
it didn't really hit me until just now that if you're poor in America and have fertility problems, then you're pretty fucked if you want to have children
and while I don't agree that having children should be an important part of your life, that is what society tells us, and being excluded from that world can be heartbreaking (it's similar to having a job, really)