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A Different World

Both: Okay Friday night
Gaknew: 5: 30 at work I
Both: forgot his cell
Gaknew: so I call home to make sure all as well and
Both: contractions started
Thea: but I knew exactly
what to do so I started to breathe
Gaknew: and I hurried home
Both: did Lamaze till 3: 00
Gaknew: ‘til she couldn't stand alone
Thea: I try to walk it out
Gaknew: baby like forget what y'all talking
about
Thea: nurse talking pitocin speed up the
contraction count but
Both: four hours later after 12 hours of labor Gaknew: dilated
Thea: three centimeters
Gaknew: still ain't broke but water
Both: contractions
Gaknew: killer like a charley horse
in your testicles
Thea: wait a minute, how the hell would he know see it's more like your body is being wrung out like a sponge
Gaknew: either way
Both: 2400 of them three minutes
apart
Gaknew: from
Thea: dust to dawn
Gaknew: daylight back to dark
Both: 24 hours only five centimeters
Gaknew: trying to think of what to tell her like Noah building an arch ‘cause if them tears
fall
Both: it's 10 feet of flash flood ripping
through brick wall
Thea: breaking down my
sanity pitocin increased 29 hours of

agony
Both: pain never cease
Gaknew: three options left. Will it be
Both: epidural
Gaknew: c-section or death
Thea: get me the epidural, but instead in comes the emergency c-section squad like the SWAT team. Felt
like I was being violated in a women's
penitentiary I didn't know what to do
didn't have too much left in me
Gaknew: she said epiderm
Both: terrified running out of time
Gaknew: needle in the spine blood running to her behind
Thea: doctor couldn't figure it out
it took
Both: a three tries
Gaknew: of prayer rebuking and doubters tears fall from my eyes
Both: then
Thea: seven hours later sis is holding up my
legs as I
Both: push
Gaknew: come on baby I can see
the head
Thea: wanted a kid since I was one
Gaknew: 3 maybe 4
Thea: I don't know having one was a
lot to endure
Gaknew: but then
Both: we began to raise her
Thea: now the Cat in the Hat has become my
favorite book again everything
disappears when
Gaknew: she smiles making
getting home from work at 3: 30 in the
morning for like sunny Saturday just
getting up in the morning
Thea: and her giggle makes it all worthwhile and every sacrifice we make is like another
mile towards her happiness so
Gaknew: this is twice the joy
Thea: but it's twice the hug
Gaknew: it's twice the worries
Thea: and it's twice the love's
Gaknew: twice the word
Thea: but it's twice the fun
Gaknew: it's twice the chase
Both: she loves
to run it's double the trouble and
sometimes
Thea: money isn't maybe but
Both: nothing compares to having a baby

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