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"No, you just have to askyour condition, do you think you'll be able to finish the work by June of next year? When are you due?"
I sighed By ood during the second and third triet the work done by June
Right?
"I'et the paper done before then I don't expect to feel great the lastthe paper in by March or early April"
"If you like I can give you an incomplete now, and you could also take a leave of absence The incoht give you enough tinancy is anything like my wife's"
"Thank you," I said "I'll talk to et back to you as soon as possible"
We said goodbye and I ended the call, feeling despondent
I should have been feeling happy that I was going to be awe could possibly want or need -- Luke ealthy, we had a wonderful aparte home in Westhampton Luke could prettyin the space industry, and once I had things sorted out with the nancy, I could take whatever time I needed or wanted to co a new mother as well on top of that, but it was doable
I planned on talking to Luke once he arrived back fron some papers and meet with a potential investor I kneould support me in whatever course I decided to take I was upset, however, that I ra to be the only way out of handing in a less-than-stellar paper
My grades up until then had been top of the class, with straight A+ in everything I took If I got a bad grade inin the competition for scholarships
I spent the rest of the afternoon looking over my paper, what I had written to that point, and felt like there was no other choice My pregnancy brain fog see able to be critical of h, no raphs, but they seemed either just as bad or even worse than before
Finally, I gave up and lay back down in bed, a hand thrown over my eyes and cried
That was how Luke found me when he arrived back home and came up to the bedroom
"Hey, hey, hey," he said and slipped off his suit jacket, dropping it on the chair by the closet and co over to the bed He lay down besidearound on the bed beside us "What's the matter?"
I shook my head, unable to speak and wrapped my arms around his shoulders He let htly