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"We're"Speaking of the inevitable, when are you going to have a baby?"

"You bastard! You never give up, do you?" She threw a hairbrush on the dressing table, knocking a regilass top "We've been through all this a thousand tinancy I won't swish crap-laden diapers around in a toilet bowl ten times a day Let someone else populate the earth I'm not about to split off my soul, like some damned amoeba"

"Those reasons are phony You don't honestly believe them yourself"

She turned back to the mirror and made no reply

"A baby could save us, Dana," he said gently

She dropped her head in her hands "I won't give up ive up your precious project"

He stroked her soft golden hair and gazed at her ie in the mirror "Your father was an alcoholic who deserted his family when you were only ten Your htmoney You and your brother were treated like aniarbage bin you called hoas stations; a nifty little occupation that netted him a murder conviction and life imprisonment at San Quentin God knows, I'm proud of how you lifted yourself frohteen hours a day to put yourself through college and grad school Yes, you had a rotten childhood, Dana, and you're afraid of having a baby because of your ht to the future; you can't deny a son or daughter their chance at life"

The stone wall rean plucking her brows The discussion was closed; she had shut him out as conclusively as if she had caused him to vanish from the room

When Seagra in front of a full-length closet ner as seeing a finished creation for the first tihtly to her torso before falling away to the ankles The décolletage was loose and offered a more than ample view of her breasts

"You'd better hurry," she said casually It was as though the argument had never happened "We don't want to keep the President waiting"

"There will be over two hundred people there No one will stick a black star on our attendance chart for being tardy"

"I don't care" She pouted "We don't receive an invitation to a White House party every night of the week I'd at least like to create a good i on time"

Seagra a bow tie and then attaching his cuff links clu for forton's social functions be conducted with co event to Dana, but to him it was a pain in the rectum

He finished buffing his shoes and co on the couch, going over reports, her briefcase open on the coffee table She was so engrossed she didn't look up when he entered the room

"I'm ready"