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Sonora Review Issue 55
Sonora Review Issue 55
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Sonora Review Issue 55
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[...] He hopes, right now, that I am pregnant. He says I'm probably a month gone, he can tell by the flab around my belly button. I think maybe it's just flab, from eating donuts and lying around all day. But we're making money. We can book appointments.
funny and also sad indictment of the state of healthcare in America
"But you can adopt," she suggests. "You can babysit."
[...]
"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)