Motherhood Made a Man Out of Me (2016)
“MARY ROSE STOOD AT THE RECEPTIONIST’S DESK AT THE Cascade Women’s Clinic, trying not to shout. It was the Monday after the party. She demanded to see her file. She wanted to see the double X’s with her own eyes.
The increased circulation of pregnancy had had an odd effect on Mary Rose’s normally thick straight hair; it now grew in corrugated waves. In an effort to control the uncontrollable, she’d had it cut chin-length by a hair salon run like a drop-in shelter: open twenty-four hours a day, n...o appointments necessary, ten bucks a head.
As a result, Mary Rose had spent the past few mornings in front of the mirror trying to fix what she supposed was simply a lousy cut. Her dark blond hair got shorter and shorter. She now looked as if her hair was cut by a peasant mother of the Middle Ages, determined to rid her child of head lice.
The other women in the waiting room were round and serene as wrens.
“I just want to know who gave out this kind of information over the phone,” said Mary Rose.MoreLess
The increased circulation of pregnancy had had an odd effect on Mary Rose’s normally thick straight hair; it now grew in corrugated waves. In an effort to control the uncontrollable, she’d had it cut chin-length by a hair salon run like a drop-in shelter: open twenty-four hours a day, n...o appointments necessary, ten bucks a head.
As a result, Mary Rose had spent the past few mornings in front of the mirror trying to fix what she supposed was simply a lousy cut. Her dark blond hair got shorter and shorter. She now looked as if her hair was cut by a peasant mother of the Middle Ages, determined to rid her child of head lice.
The other women in the waiting room were round and serene as wrens.
“I just want to know who gave out this kind of information over the phone,” said Mary Rose.MoreLess
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