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The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker cover image

Allegra Goodman Reads “The Last Grownup”

The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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Are You Worried It Will Be Weird for the Girls?

Heather's sister is having a terrible time getting pregnant. When are you getting married? After the baby. We didn't want to wait too long. She had foreseen engagement and then marriage, not an instant family. He said, are you worried it will be weird for the girls? Oh yeah. Because you think it's wrong to have a baby first? No. Not at all. Once upon a time, Deborah had wanted a third child, but Richard had objected and she had listened. It's just so much at once. That's why we want to talk to them.

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