#intergenerational-reflection

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fromBusiness Insider
4 days ago

I got pregnant with my daughter in college. Now, she's applying to college herself, and I'm grieving the life I could've had.

I've watched her type her applications, and it sparked a flashback to when I sat in the kitchen of my run-down college apartment and learned I was pregnant with her. I'll never forget the look of the brown linoleum floor illuminated under the harsh fluorescent light, its buzzing the only other sound competing with my sobs. My boyfriend held his head in his hands, the positive pregnancy tests fanned around him like the color sticks at a nail salon.
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