“My e-mail bottomed out within twenty-four hours of the subscribers’ delivery date. Now I’m back at work, wading through a fate worse than failure. Success. Copies are flying off the newsstands and generating the kind of mail usually reserved for political tell-alls. Tai says we need to stay close to the reader on this one, give her personal attention, as in answer every one of the e-mails “The Pregnant Pause” receives. Even if I could type sixty words a minute for a solid week I could not keep ...up. Never mind that I don’t have the medical or psychological savvy to deal with letters “Dear Abby” would hesitate to tackle. For instance: “Don’t we have enough problems without encouraging self-indulgent middle-aged women to bear genetically morbid children to justify their egotistical whims?” Or this one: “At last! Someone who understands. Even though I detest men, I’m meant to be a mother. Given the chance, I’d rear a male child to be the kind of man I’ve never found.”MoreLessRead More Read Less
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