Well, no wonder I'm tired

[veronica_rich]

A girl who was in my grade in school - who dropped out when she got pregnant at 16 - just became a grandmother.

She's a year older than me.

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[yoiebear.livejournal.com]

A couple of years ago, I was checking with a sheriff's department in the middle of nowhere West Virginia because we'd heard toxicology reports had come back on the body of a 38-year-old woman who had died in a fire. While chatting with the sheriff, I casually asked if the info I had was right, that the woman had been a mother of 3 and grandmother of 8, including a 12-year-old. The sheriff said that the info was correct and, if she had lived, she'd be a great-grandmother by then.
The sheriff and I then started talking about teen mothers. It is apparently pretty common for young girls to have babies in that part of W.Va. because they have "nothing else to do." He told me about a 24-year-old who lived near the sheriff's office that he had seen with a baby. It wasn't until the baby started walking that he talked to the woman about her daughter. The woman informed him that the baby was her granddaughter and that she was proud her daughter waited an extra year longer than she did to have a baby.
I still can't shake that.

At nearly 28, I want kids, but I know I couldn't do it right now. Let alone have grandkids. EEK.