The past few months flash before my eyes, nailing me with stunning, convicting clarity. I’ve been distracted with work, hustling for the app’s funding, revising our presentation for potential investors, doing everything I can to make the future feel financially secure, ever since we decided she would go off birth control and we’d stop preventing pregnancy… Six months ago. It’s been six fucking months, and I can’t remember the last time we talked about it, the last time I noticed if she’d gotten her period or missed it. I felt the weight of our lives double with the impending promise of a
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