Jo Buckley
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“What if I kept her?” Evan repeats. “Like, just me.”
“Buck, what in the ever-loving fuck are you talking about?”
“You don’t want to keep her, right?” Evan says. “Which, a hundred percent, totally your call, I’m not like, trying to talk you out of it or anything but… What if— what if instead of, of putting her up for adoption, you give her to me? Or, I keep her, I guess. Since she’s like, mine. Half mine. So it’s not really giving her to me, but—”
“Buck,” Bart interrupts him. “I’m not… I can’t be a mom.”
“I know,” Evan reassures, so fast he nearly stumbles over the words.“I know, seriously. And I’m not— I wouldn’t ask you to be. I’m not asking you to be. But I think… I think I can be a dad. Or— no. I know I can be a dad. I— I want to be a dad.”
Evan forces himself to still, looking Bart straight in the eyes. Trying to communicate, wordlessly, how much he means it. How much he means all of it.
“I want to keep her,” he says.
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It’s the summer of 2008 and everything in Evan Buckley’s life is about to change.
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- Part 1 of Jo Buckley