And I also knew that her baby would help carry his or her mother’s burdens for much of their life.
It would take a serious toll on that loving relationship with her boyfriend, the one they had built from the bottom and cherished so much, or it might obliterate it totally. She might have to drop out of school, drop her ambitious dreams, forget about studying abroad and traveling and reveling with her friends. Luckily, it turned out that she wasn’t pregnant, but I know that if my friend had been pregnant and went through with it, it would ruin her life.
