“Her message was short: “Any kids?” So I wrote, “Sure. But it might take me a few tries to get you pregnant.”
“I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.”
“Sure, we're the sum of our experiences. If you listen to that song I wrote in 1969, "Dream On," you might get a different view. I may not have been quite sure of what I was doing, but I was on to something.”
“Well, Ben says you have to be married to get a girl pregnant. And me and Cindy are not married, so she couldn't get pregnant, see?”
“But try as I might, I never got to eat any of her pastries, and do you know, she never even offered me one.”
“For a few seconds, I thought I might actually cry. That was so unlike me, I wasn't sure how to respond. Bronwyn Alessia St. Vincent Clare didn't get sad. She got mad. Or better, she got even.”