“I knew from seeing how you changed that I didn’t want to have another child inside,” she said. “I couldn’t bear the idea of giving birth to a baby, then giving him up to only see him to nurse. I couldn’t accept having my son giggling, playing, and drooling on other women who didn’t go through the journey of carrying him for nine months, doubling over with contractions, and twelve-plus hours of labor pains. I wasn’t going to push him into a world I didn’t know how to defend myself from yet. It was bad enough I lost you in the Community. I wasn’t sacrificing another child.” She wiped at a tear.
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