Zia was depressed. Her father had just died, and her mother was going to a nursing home. She had been at college when her mother called her.
“Zia? Is that you?” Her mother had asked. Her voice sounded fragile through the phone. “Your father died.” Zia couldn’t believe it. “I have decided to give you the house. It is too big and I am getting old. I will be going to the nursing home, where there will be nurses and I’ll be taken care of comfortably until the day I join your father. I trust you will raise your family in the house, just like we did, and my parents, and their parents did before us.”
Zia moved in when she was 23. She began to clean up the house, and before you know it, she noticed there was a new email. It was from Gregino, a boy she had met in college. He asked her to marry him! Trembling with joy, Zia accepted, and waited until he came to the house. Zia was no longer sad, and no longer lonely. But would she be able to have children, and raise her family just as her mother told her to?

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