Margo's Got Money Troubles

by Rufi Thorpe

but she hadn’t understood how expensive that love was, how much a mother paid for it.

I like getting to be the me now watching the past me. It’s almost a way of loving myself. Stroking the cheek of that girl with my understanding. Smoothing her hair in my mind’s eye.

But there’s nothing like having a baby to make you solidly pro-choice!”

“You can’t tell me that if it was men and a medical decision would result in their penis splitting open and them not being able to hold their pee for the rest of their life, they wouldn’t think that should be their own decision.”

Because that’s all art is, in the end. One person trying to get another person they have never met to fall in love with them.