My mom, Catherine, and Gloria had all assumed that I knew, and that one of the other women had told me. Gloria and her husband had been going to a fertility clinic for close to a year, and her first three attempts at in vitro fertilization had failed to get her pregnant. She desperately wanted a baby. Well, she got one.
I don't know how she knew, but I had indeed gotten her pregnant that Friday afternoon. It took me a long time to get over my shock, and then I felt bad for my overreaction. I had once again opened my mouth and said the wrong thing, and spoiled that perfect moment. In Gloria's case, she would get over it as soon as her pregnancy results came in. She was already a gorgeous woman, but when she got that pregnant glow about her she looked so amazing she was a hazard to road tra
