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How quitting is next to impossible

and even those users who suffer

through often never recover completely.

Footnote:

Possible

pregnancy

complications

crank

baby

birth

defects

health

and behavior

abnormalities.

Too Much

to think about.

Too much to bear.

And time was running short.

I knew

I couldn’t marry Chase.

I knew he would stand by me.

But he deserved his dreams.

I feared

closing that door.

I feared the uncertainty

of choosing parenthood.

I doubted

I could give my baby away.

I doubted more I could raise it

on my own—with or without defect.

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