Susy was settled in Montana with her husband Christopher. She is 8 weeks and 2 days pregnant with his child after aborting the first. This experience motivated her to become an abortion councilor at a new clinic reopening to support women and young women who are going through this process so that they wont feel lonely . As she spent more time bonding with her mother, she realized that her mother spent money so easily because her grandmother sent checks to pay for rent and phone bills. During her pregnancy her mother took her shopping for all of the things she wanted for her unborn baby. The Saturday before Thanksgiving Susy went into labor for 57 hours, she had a baby boy and named him Daniel. A short period after she had a second child, Jack. As she went on with her life she realized that she questioned every aspect of her past because she had been lied to so often. The story ends as she reconnects with family in New York; her sister, her father and stepmother.
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"This is what I'll tell my sons, when they ask, when I tell them about our abortion: We made a decision to be better parents, and that was what it took. Nothing yet in our lives had given us to understand the sacrifice of love, the efforts of parenthood, the heart flung open with generosity. The abortion was our preface, the beginning of who you would need and who you would know (Sonnenberg 231)"
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In this quote it is shown that Susy is making well planned out and informative decisions. She is no longer making decisions off of her first instinct or to satisfy her addiction. She has grown as a person because she was able to make beneficial decisions for herself. Some examples of the decisions were to stop her addiction, being faithful to her husband and deciding the right to time to have a child.
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