Bein' respectable's overrated.

[She gives him a slow, sage nod, then laugh-snorts, loud and sloppy.]

Fuck, that sounds just like all the stupid girls I went to high school with. Get knocked up, marry their high school boyfriends, never leave the little shit town they grew up in. Happy to die there and never do anything else - they're fuckin' dead already.

[She rubs a hand up over her face, pausing at her forehead to prop her head up, fingers raked through her hair.]

My ma was just like that. I swore I'd never be anything like her if I could help it.