A powerful prediction, spoken like fact, seemed to drop out of nowhere during a random conversation my husband and I were having months into our relationship as boyfriend and girlfriend: “Lorrie, I was thinking…we would make some pretty babies.”
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OK, I’ll just go ahead and put it out there to immortalize in print: I consider myself to be an attractive woman. Not flawless, not drop-dead-gorgeous or runway material by any means….but attractive.
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Whenever a discussion about out-of-order kids comes up and my father is present, he’s usually quick to remind everyone of the first and last time I earned a public spanking.
The misbehavior happened decades ago, but the man recounts the
“Mom, can I go there?”
I looked up from typing my latest assignment at the sound of Nia’s voice. “Go where?”
She pointed at the TV screen, where a little girl in a ballet costume was twirling and pirouetting onstage. … Read the rest