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"It was so easy for Ash...who had a ten-year plan with her boyfriend; who knew she'd be trying for a baby by thirty-three, once she'd made deputy head and could afford a year of maternity. It was all pretty easy, Bette thought, when you didn't stumble into a massive sexuality crisis in the dying days of your twenty-ninth year" (30)- dang 😐

"Coming into ourselves as parents and adults-none of that would happen with anyone else. If there was anything meaningful about aging, it was tunneling backward in time together, holding memories as a couple so they made a kind of safe basket in a rough and arbitrary world-not just for Sam but for us."