what they really mean is that they want babies. Nobody wants an angry adolescent. Nobody wants an obnoxious seven-year-old trying to wear out dirty words they just learned in school that day. What they really want is cute, adorable babies who love you and need you. The bad stuff is just the price you agree to pay for having the good stuff. Which explains why mothers of fourteen- and fifteen-year-olds are ferociously drawn to babies. Having given birth, they know the joys: the velvet skin, the sweet buttermilk breath, the sparkling eyes, the look of longing that only you can fulfill. But these are all a vague memory now, buried beneath the tedium and torture of the more recent years. These women have needs. They need to hold little babies, and they need to do it soon. And these are the people you want to seek out at parties. I’m telling you, these ladies are so anxious to get their hands on your baby, you’re guaranteed all the quality child-free time you want.
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