They asked few questions of Maggie’s life, because why would they? What was there to say? It was only a half-life to them, and it was a half-life, too, to the relatives at family get-togethers who always prodded You won’t be young forever! It was a half-life to the doctors who had mentioned, unsolicited, that her eggs were deteriorating in quality, declining in number, and biologically speaking, she was already past her prime.
