On Tuesday, July 28, 2015 at 4:02:04 PM UTC-4, Sal Paradise wrote:
> On 7/28/2015 1:56 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> > On Tuesday, July 28, 2015 at 1:28:26 PM UTC-4, Sal Paradise wrote:
> >> On 7/28/2015 11:03 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> >>> (I was a cute, precocious little girl,
> >>> and I made a perfect excuses for men to come over to the table to
> >>> chat up my mother. Win-win for everybody.)
> >>>
> >>> Cindy Hamilton
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> Um...how did your Dad feel about all that chatting?
> >
> > Irrelevant, since I was born out of wedlock.
>
> Right then, I had to ask.
>
> > I've never met
> > the fellow, although my mother told me fairly recently
> > that he was marrying wife #4. She's a little smug about
> > saying "no" when he offered to divorce wife #1 and marry
> > her.
>
> As well she might be!
>
> > Single motherhood was not invented recently.
> >
> > Cindy Hamilton
>
> That it wasn't, sorry if my question was intrusive.

No problem. If I felt it was intrusive, I would have
said so, or dodged the question, or lied.

I'm not responsible for the circumstances of my birth,
and my mother worked very hard to give me a good upbringing.

If the Pill had been available in 1956, I probably wouldn't
be here to have this conversation.

Cindy Hamilton