“That’s what happens when you mess with Mother Nature. A swift kick to the crotch.” “That’s what happens when you mess with Mother Nature. A swift kick to the crotch.”Less than a year later Lydia shot out twins. Twins! Marvin had not seen that screw job in any of the fine print when he agreed to the deal. Just when they were getting ahead of things and able to make a dent in Lydia’s Mount Everest of student loan debt two more mouths to feed and clothe and all the other crap that goes with it. If there was a God, he was probably just offering an extra baby in case Marvin leaned into his tendency to break them. After the cesarean birth that looked like some gory Greek myth come to pass to Marvin as he witnessed the bodies lifted from her cavity, Lydia was all but worthless while recovering.

