“Mackenzie, that’s not true.” I pace the deck. “I don’t regret having you. I never have. But you know my pregnancy wasn’t planned. I didn’t want to be a teenage mother, but it happened, and I loved your dad, and we loved you from the second we found out I was pregnant, so we made it work. But we had to bust our asses just to keep you in diapers. While other kids our age were going to parties and getting degrees, we were staying up all night with a colicky baby and eating Ramen noodles because it was all we could afford. If I made it look easy, then yay for me. It’s my job as your mother to
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