Ins and Outs on the Ups and Downs that include some Notes on the Cut, Thrust and Parry that is part of the Great Game--Sexual Politics. And encompassing too Single Men and Women and the Pleasures of Youth.

Friday

Getting pregnant, getting jilted

She was counting her blessings. Hooboy, one thing she's been saved...Getting pregnant...Being, y'know, unmarried. Then the man whose child you are carrying, turns around, turns on you and says, You're on your own, I'm leaving.
That must be the hardest thing.
She was willing to risk having his baby, risk other things, disease even, humiliation. And then he does this to her, tells her...
What she didn't know was how all that lay directly before her, within the week.