Second Act
“I’m thirty-eight, single, wish I’d had kids — to a certain extent — but feel like I lost that choice because I got so tied to the idea of independence,” she said. “But you have to be. My parents’ way, the working-class-America way of raising your kids on a diet of ‘Hard work and industry will lead to success,’ is no longer available to us. Now it’s ‘Do what you can and apologize later.’” She smiled and waited for her marshmallows.
– From Talk of the Town in Jan 2 New Yorker
