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Natalie\u2014beautiful, childless, twenty-five-year-old Natalie\u2014squeezed his hand. She cast a look in my direction that wasn\u2019t quite pity and wasn\u2019t quite triumph. It was worse. It was relief.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m sorry, Em,\u201d she said. And the nickname she\u2019d called me since we were kids playing in the mud felt like acid poured into my ears. \u201cBut we\u2019re in love. We have been for months.\u201d<\/p>\n

The room was so quiet I could hear the antique grandfather clock ticking in the corner.\u00a0Tick. Tock.<\/span>\u00a0Counting down the seconds of my humiliation. Thirty women who had come to celebrate the impending arrival of my first child now sat frozen, teacups halfway to their mouths, watching my husband walk out on me at my own baby shower.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Natalie\u2014beautiful, childless, twenty-five-year-old Natalie\u2014squeezed his hand. She cast a look in my direction that wasn\u2019t quite pity and wasn\u2019t quite triumph. It was worse. It was relief. \u201cI\u2019m sorry, Em,\u201d she said. And the nickname she\u2019d called me since we were kids playing in the mud felt like acid poured into my ears. \u201cBut we\u2019re…<\/p>\n

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