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" Welcome Mary F. Pols... Hello Storked! readers. I got Storked! at 39. It was definitely completely contrary to anything I had planned for myself. The simplest beginning is: Girl walks into a bar. No, make that woman walks into a bar. Aging woman. She&amp;#x27;s with great friends, but she&amp;#x27;s essentially a lonely woman. Someone who thinks that the kind of life she wants, the family life as seen on a Christmas card, with husband, house, dog and at least one child, is rapidly slipping out of her grasp. But she can&amp;#x27;t stop hoping for it. In the meantime, there&amp;#x27;s this cute guy at the bar. Oh, he&amp;#x27;s too young. 29. Been there done that. But he&amp;#x27;s got one of those wide open smiles that have the capacity to slay the woman. He&amp;#x27;s just awkwardly blunt enough in conversation to seem some how safe. He reads novels. He seems eager. It&amp;#x27;s been a year since she slept with anyone. It sounds terribly shallow to say, but he&amp;#x27;s so pretty she can no more resist him than she can pass on dessert or a dress on sale. One-night stands aren&amp;#x27;t rocket science; they&amp;#x27;re impulse, need, greed. The condom. She asked for it, she really did. But it sat in its package all night long, and the next morning, the sight of it still all wrapped up in orange, barely made a dent in her afterglow. Women her age don&amp;#x27;t randomly get pregnant, er, Storked!. Do they? Later, when she breaks the news to her 84-year-old father that apparently, they do, he will ask her: &amp;quot;Are you sure it wasn&amp;#x27;t accidentally-on-purpose?&amp;quot; But five years later, when she&amp;#x27;s written a book about the whole thing, enough of this coyness, she is me of course--there&amp;#x27;s only one title that works. The life I never would have planned for myself has turned out to be the happiest accident I ever could have made. Get Mary F. Pols book, Accidently On Purpose, here. and Mary is joining Storked! today so feel free to ask her Q&amp;#x27;s, like what&amp;#x27;s up with the father, or how to navigate an unexpected pregnancy... "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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