Ukrainian Baby
She had just finished the 8th grade when word got out that she was pregnant.
Damn! Only 16! said the old timers.
But who could’ve done such a thing? they wondered, obviously, someone not of our nationality because our boys wouldn’t do such a thing…well, at least they’ll come out and take the responsibility…
Disgusting! said another.
But she grew bigger and bigger, her belly stretching out wider and wider.
Maybe it was Hryhory, said a third, who continued, I have seen them together and they were whispering to each other…Must be something in that…What a minute…Marko, the sly one…he was always after her…Remember when they had that dance in school? Who did they take away because he was bothering the girls? Marko. Yessirree…It was him!
It’s disgusting! they all agreed.
Still she wouldn’t say who it was. Her mother promised that she’d find out and when she did it would be the end of him…Even had some Gypsy words to fling at him, mixed together with the Yiddish she cursed him with…
Disgusting, what little kids do to their parents nowadays! Just horrible!
She stayed in her room getting fatter by the day until she went to the hospital to give birth…unfortunately the baby was born but died prematurely…
She killed it! the old geezers said. I know she did! Poor, poor Ukrainian baby…
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