Chula Vista

Linda was on birth control and based on her doctor's recommendation stopped it for a while. We reverted to using the rythym method. Six months later - holy ****! Shortly after we ended up in the emergency room because she was in massive pain. The doctor came out after a while and said that she might have a tubular pregancy which would need to be aborted, but they wouldn't know for sure until the next morning.

I drove home alone that night with extreme mixed feelings. We were both only 22, **** poor, and not ready at all.

The next morning I get the call. We're going to have a baby. 7 months later I hear her crying in the kitchen, walk in, and she's standing in a puddle scared ****less.

Grab the pre-prepared suitacse and rush to the hospital. 12 hours later: "It's a girl!"

Surreal is not a strong enough word. Time for Linda to crash so I go with the nurse to measure and weigh the baby. I notice that her skull is really oblong and mention it to the nurse. She says it's normal and what happens so a baby can get through the birth canal.

I reply: Is it going to get back to normal? She answers: Have you ever seen an adult walking around with a head like that?

On the drive home (alone again) I had to pull over and get out of the car because the lightning bolt finally hit me. I'm a father!

What a long strange trip it's been. And I get to walk her down the aisle on Saturday.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”