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Positively PregnantAfter 14 Years She Didn't Think She Could Get Pregnant
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By Terri Rimmer Jul 06 2006 05:49PMContact this Content Producer
January 2, 2000It couldn't be.
Tara watched the double lines begin to form with shock and a dazed expression though she didn't look in the mirror to see how truly dazed she looked.
She trusted it.
She stared at the stick for a long time before realizing what it would mean as it traveled from her head to her heart.
Two nights before on New Year's Eve she'd complained about being bored as she witnessed the multi-colored spectrum of parties on TV. And heard the rapid clicking of Alex, her boyfriend's fingers flying across his beloved computer keyboard.
She'd gone to her sister Chelsea's for Christmas a few weeks before when she slept constantly amid family chatter and the loud pitter patter of her nephew's mini adventures along the massive hardwood floors of the beach house. Tara remembered being very mad at her stepbrother for not having his son potty-trained and letting him stay up till 3 a.m., playing and waking Chelsea's girlfriend up.
And now in a truly spiritual and terrifying moment of truth, the pink stick staring back at Tara with lines for eyes "told" her she was going to have a baby!
She went to tell Alex, a surly depressive whose apartment constantly buzzed with the sounds of computers and printers, his addiction. The only color his place boasted of was the black and white of his many computer and equipment, which constituted his entire life.
He was next door at his friend's apartment, chit chatting while her life changed before her. He had been telling her she was pregnant for a month but she had firmly been in denial.
After 14 years of being told there was no physical reason she hadn't gotten pregnant, she gave up on birth control years long ago. Since her dad sexually abused her with tools she figured he must have done something to her organs.
And now here it was. She and Alex were forming a life.The door flew open downstairs now and she told Alex to come into the bathroom where she continued to stare at the double lines as if they were aliens beckoning her to join them.
He was in his usual happy-go-lucky mood, which irritated her since she was usually in a cynical, worrying mood. But now she thrust the empty box, which displayed the diagram toward him.
"You see this picture?" she asked as he smiled at her from the hallway.
She then pointed to the picture with the double lines next to it.
"Now you see this one?" she asked, anxiety rising in her voice. "This one's me."

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