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"Is that like baby fever?"

"Yeah, but when you can give the baby back to the parents"

"I like that idea I can’t i a parent Can you? We don’t have any time to ourselves now It would be hellish to have to split the little bit we do have with another living, breathing, needy thing"

"Wow" I shook my head "Let’s hope you don’t knock anyone up any time soon"

"Let’s hope I don’t knock anyone up ever" He shook his head "I honestly can’t ie on to someone else"

I sat there stunned for achildren before, but hadn’t really thought about the fact that they would have to go through what I had Then again, they would be further removed from the crown than Max and I It wouldn’t be quite so bad

"It’s what you ed "If you do have kids, it doesn’tYou could make sure they had a normal childhood"

"Our children will never have a normal childhood" He looked at me with pity

"Well, no one is really norh the channels I didn’t want to continue that conversation Having a child was a part of a normal life I wanted for myself "Oh! Zombies"

"Great Phone calls, babies, and now zombies My own personal horror rape at hiret that" He picked up the grape and ate it

"Ew You don’t knohose butt has been on that couch" My nose wrinkled in horror

"And I don’t care" He s my head, I turned back to the TV and watched as the hero used a bow and arrows to take out a staood way to relax after a long day

FOURTEEN

THE SCHOOL I attended the next day was a s The children were excited, the staff was kind, and best of all, everyone seereat about updatingsure I had the papers I needed for the pitch I was giving to the school ads that the children presented tothe classroom with the new supplies that I had funded, I was escorted back to my car and on my way to the hospital

"That went really well!" I s this, not just fighting with investors"

"I can only i it is to deal with people that just don’t get sos on her phone as she talked "And the kids love you When you sat down and painted at that one table with the kids, I thought they were going to go crazy"