I Want to Be A Father Someday

My grammy said, “What?! I’m getting too old for babies!”

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“What you want a baby for?” my grammy asked. “Didn’t you just tell me how expensive dog food is. Now you talking ‘bout a baby!”

“I’m not gonna have the baby. I want to adopt,” I explained.

“That’s the same thing! A baby is a baby.” She worked through her theatre routine now. She kept going. “Since when…