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BY the year my husband turned 40 and I hit the age of 35, John’s
parents evidently were worried about us. His older brother had
produced three grandchildren. So had his younger sister. We had
produced none.
For my in-laws, to love is to worry. When John’s parents visited
us from New York, his mother would get me alone and inquire delicately.
After a perfect summer seafood dinner at their beach house, the same
questions were fired at us. They always made attempts to know our
attitude. Didn’t we want kids? Or was there a problem with our
marriage?
John’s father rarely said anything, yet I knew that she spoke
for both of them. He was a re
tired ambassador and he liked to call himself a cranky(怪僻的)old
mail. But I knew that he cared
and they fretted(烦忧)over us together.
By then we were wondering too. In earlier years the pressure to
procreate(生育)had made us roll our eyes. In our 20’s and even into
our 30’s,we were ambivalent(矛盾的)about the whole idea of children.
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We certainly didn’t regard the decision as anyone’s business but
our own. Besides, what was the big deal(了不起)?His parents already
had six grandchildren. Why did they need more from us?
Then one day we realized that we were real adults—old enough to
be somebody’s parents. We had exceeded the age of youthfulness.
Suddenly we felt ready for a child.
As a baby became central to our hopes, I better understood my
in-laws’ interference. Now in their sliver years, they took the
connection between their later years of life and their children and
grandchildren for their greatest pleasure. Our child would provide
both us and them with a lifeline to the future.
Yet to hope does not always mean receiving. By the time 1 was
35,John and I had been“trying”for three years, however, I did not
get pregnant. It seemed that Mother Nature(自然的力量)was
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