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Yikes! This board is dead!
Hello?
(Hello? Hello? Hello?..hello...)
~tumbleweed~
Anyway, in case anyone comes here, I've been thinking about my abortion lately.
First reason is that my anniversary was yesterday. (Which makes today my birthday! Yippie, what a happy birthday memory!) It's been five years.
The second reason is that in a scene-study class I'm working on a tough scene. My character got pregnant at 17 and gave the baby to her older sister to raise. Sixteen years later the adoption is still a secret. Both women have regrets about where their lives have gone. My character is a successful but lonely career woman, and the sister is a bitter, disappointed housewife.
In their fight, my character mentions two past abortions. A page later she's crying.
But I can't cry. Shouldn't be too hard, I cry about it even now. So why can't I do it in this scene?
