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“Open Writing Assignment”
Caroline was thirty-four, which was not too old to have kids. But it was, she thought, too old to not know if she wanted to have kids. In their twenties, she and Harry had happily not known together.
“Not now, and maybe not ever,” they’d agreed. Only in idle moments did she wonder when the much-heralded biological clock would turn up its volume and begin its dark hypnosis on her. You are feeling veeeeery motherly.
But it hadn’t happened. She stayed clear-eyed. And the i

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