Debi managed a wan smile when he talked about love increasing after a baby. "You two make it look so easy, being in love and having a family. I know it's not, nothing worth having ever is, but - "
She blinked back tears at the gentle touch on her cheek, and the kind words about women looking better after they'd had children. All her life she'd read the magazines and seen the pictures that said that thin was beautiful, and soon she wouldn't be thin at all.
But if a gay man told her this, someone with no interest at all in how much a woman weighed -
"I - I never thought of it that way. It really is a rite of passage, isn't it, having a baby?"