2. Promise?
The woman’s name was Anne. She told me she’d called the rehab an hour after
she found out she was pregnant. Because of the holiday weekend she’d had to
wait a week for an evaluation. I asked
her how she was feeling.
“I’d push you under a bus for a cigarette,” she said. I thought she might
be kidding. She shrugged, smiled
broadly, and added, “I’d do just about anything for a glass of wine right now,
but I promised myself if I ever got pregnant, I’d quit. I never really believed I would, but here I
am, keeping my promise.”
“Well ain’t you just Mother freakin’ Teresa,” the skinny young man with the
straw-like hair muttered. Anne ignored
him.
Today I will make a promise and
keep it.
Life on Life's Terms III (c) 2016 by Ken Montrose
Life on Life's Terms III is a work of
fiction. Any resemblance between the characters and anyone you might know
is purely coincidental.
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