made grateful by your kind suggestion. You've read her mind. Your stomach does roller-coaster loops as it slings around life-ending possibilities.
In sleep, you dream of your childhood home, threadbare and bleak under fluorescent light. This time, you are the father, and the miserable, sticky child whinging for your attention is a featureless, unholy amalgam made of you and Susan.
You wake with a heat in your chest and think, I have to get the snip. I need to look up clinics.
But the thought also strikes new fear: You cannot look this up. At all. What if Magi sees? What if Magi tells?
هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة December 22, 2024 من The Straits Times.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة December 22, 2024 من The Straits Times.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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