Dear Vanessa:
I hope you can make good use of the baby supplies. It’s a small collection we accumulated over the past few years, in anticipation of the big event. But then, things started to look a little different. Giving that stuff away to a 17-year-old mother-to-be with nothing but a growing support system was the right thing to do. If we ever do decide to have kids, we can afford to buy it again. I wondered whether I should be sad about parting with something that hadn’t yet had a chance to even figure into my life. It didn’t bother me at all. There is no more obvious answer right now than that having kids would be a really bad idea. For us and for them. I’ll take this as confirmation that I can continue on with my life in a completely guilt-free and dissolute manner. Awesome. Jenni