Something must have happened, your mother speculated. In her mind a woman with no child could only be explained by vast untrammeled calamity.

Maybe she just doesn't like children.

Nobody likes children, your mother assured you. That doesn't mean you don't have them.

“You don't know what it's like to grow up with a mother who never said a positiv…”

“Nobody likes children, your mother assured you. That doesn't mean you don't hav…”

“You try every trick in the book to keep her. You write her letters. You drive h…”

“In my universe, when a dork like Oscar pushes up on a girl like Jenni, he usual…”