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Josie
The daylight hours were already getting noticeably shorter each day as summer fully morphed into fall, so that fit perfectly with my desire to sleep all the time. I wanted to be left alone to mope, but Dean and Aunt Mimi would not allow it. They were insistent that I get up and resume living my life, despite how pathetic and lonely of an existence it now was.
“Don’t you at least want to find out if you’re really preggers?” Mimi stage-whispered the next morning, holding a hand up to her mouth, even though we were alone in my bedroom.
I shook my head and turned over. I didn’t need to take a test or visit a doctor because I already knew I was pregnant. “With my horrendous luck lately, how could I not be?”
At least this baby would be a lifelong companion and wonderful reminder of
