One day he told her he wanted a baby. He would be serious, he’d settle down, he’d get a regular job. He might even consider marriage. “A baby?” she asked him. “But I’d have to leave school. I have years more before I’m done. If I had a baby, I might never go back to school.” “Yeah,” he said, “but we’d have a baby. You wouldn’t have school, but you’d have something else.” “Jesse, I need school,” she told him. He shrugged, and she could feel their lives together slip off his shoulders and away. It lasted another few months, but it all had really been settled in that brief exchange. They kissed
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