Some time back, when meeting some work contacts for the very first time, one of them asked me, after spotting the rock on my ring finger, if I had children.
When I replied that my husband and I had just got married and liked our quiet coupledom, I received a quizzical look from my unrelenting acquaintance and the question: “But don’t you want kids?”
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