We be aight.”Tiffany: “Is you fucking retarded? I’m not going to be
no welfare mom!”I did not want to have an abortion, but at the same time,
I did not want to have a baby with that man, in those
circumstances. What kind of life would that be for the baby?
What if something happened to me? ͳis man couldn’t
even take care of himself, how was he going to take care of a
child? If I died the kid would inherit what? A Geo Metro?
That’s not a good inheritance.
And honestly, I was not ready to be a mom. I hadn’t even
gotten to experience life at this point. How could I raise a
child, you know?
I felt the weight of the world on me. I felt like if I had this
baby, it’d be the biggest mistake of my entire existence.
I felt terrible, I felt like I was going to go to hell for this.
But you know what? I’d rather go to hell and die without a
baby on Earth, suĉering, than have a baby here on Earth
that suffered. That ain’t right.
We were still arguing about it, then he took my car to go
pick up some food for us . . . and he didn’t come back for
two days. Then he walked in.
Titus: “You should probably go ahead and take care of
that.”On the way to the clinic, he was trying to shame me. You