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  • Choosing Not to Keep the Baby (ugh!)

    06/16/2009 12:31:57 PM PDT · by reaganaut1 · 60 replies · 1,500+ views
    New York Times ^ | June 16, 2009 | Lisa Belkin
    ... For my first trip out and about since learning I was pregnant, I went to meet with the director of an adoption agency. He was so supportive and sweet that I walked away choked up but not in tears — it was the first day I didn’t cry. Even though the adoption agency can pay my medical costs and set me up with adoptive parents for maternity shopping, grocery shopping, birthing classes and all kinds of programs, it didn’t feel like enough. I told the director how scared and lonely I’ve been and he just said, “I know. I...