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I never thought I'd accidentally get pregnant, which sounds silly to say in retrospect..
We're still together we now have a 12-year-old son and a younger daughter.. Loading Something is loading...
When I tell people my new boyfriend and I got pregnant after four months of dating, they give me the same look: part sadness, part astonishment that we could be so foolish...
The fact that we weren't married or that we'd just started dating seemed to irk some people in our lives as if we had the audacity to have a baby when that didn't follow a trajectory laid out by society..
It was never an easy road for us, but I can say with absolute certainty that motherhood is my most abiding joy so much so that we added a baby girl to the mix five years later..
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