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“Kids?” I ask.
“No.” She shakes her head, her answer surprising the hell out of me.
“No, you don’t want kids?” I clarify.
“No, I mean yes, I do. But no, I can’t.”
“What do you mean you can’t?”
“Just what I said, I can’t.”
“You can’t have children?” I soften my voice.
“Nope.” She lets out a slow breath. “I got really sick when I was little and almost died. We didn’t know until many years later but the medication they gave me caused irreversible damage to some pretty key areas.” She gestures to her abdomen. “Therefore, no kids.”
“Wow.” I sit back, not really sure what to say. “I’m sorry that happened to you,” I offer.
“Don’t be. I accepted it a long time ago.”
“Do you think you’d ever adopt?”
“Maybe.” She shrugs. “I guess it would depend on my situation. But right now I’m nowhere close to considering anything like that.”
“I didn’t suspect you would be,” I offer, wishing she’d meet my gaze.
“So, anyway. What about you? You see kids in your future.” She finally looks up, clearly trying to hide the emotion this conversation has stirred.
“I think I’d like to have one or two,” I admit.
Something shifts on her face. Something I can only read as disappointment, but it’s gone as quickly as it appeared and I’m left wondering if maybe I’m just looking for things that aren’t there.
“Tell me something you’ve never done that you’ve always wanted to do?” I change tactics, sensing the urgency for a lighter topic.
“Visit Italy.” She smirks.
Smart ass.
“Something you’re not currently doing,” I counter. “Something off the top of your head.”
“Skydive,” she says after thinking on it for a moment.
“Really?” I smile.
“Well, that’s something I used to want to do,” she adds.
“But not anymore?”
“I don’t know.” She shrugs, blowing out a breath.
“If I took you to go skydiving right now would you do it?” I challenge.
“I don’t know,” she repeats.
“Why don’t you know?”
“A year ago I would have said yes with no hesitation but now, I don’t know. I guess maybe I’m scared.”
“What are you scared of?”
