She charted the temperature and studied the numbers, wondering what it all meant. She couldn’t tell whether she was normal or abnormal, but she knew she was getting a little closer to motherhood each morning. The chart would further define her options, regardless of the outcome, and it was a hundred times better than doing nothing at all. To further feel like she was making progress, Rain started a journal. She wrote down physical descriptions and character traits that would make up the perfect father. The problem was that the character traits were hard to gauge. She would have to get to know a donor to truly know his character, and that wasn’t part of the deal. Most of the information online was sketchy and many wanted to remain anonymous. Besides, she didn’t want the mess of interpersonal relationships clouding the issue. She would be raising the baby alone, so she reasoned that, ultimately, her character was the more important factor. Nurture over nature and all that. Or was it nature over nurture?
