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The test was positive, obviously. Amid the tears, I told my mother what had happened. She cursed me bitch down. He said that I deserved all the pain the world was able to cause me and that now I would know what it was like to have life destroyed by a baby out of time.

I let her go and looked for the one person I should be looking for at that moment. Eric. He did even worse than my mother. He said I wanted his money and was using the pregnancy for that. That since I had the courage to have sex with three different men on the same night and act like it was no big deal, it could have happened to other people as well. Eric kicked me out and told me never to look for him again."

"I lost the baby, two weeks after graduation." Evie says, drying her face again. She had not stopped crying since the mention of Eric’s name. "It was painful, since the child was almost formed, but I believe it was deliverance. I can’t imagine what my life would be like today if that pregnancy had paid off.”