I Will Do Better feat. Charles Bock

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🗓️ 19 December 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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0:41.1	description. So see over on YouTube if that's what you're into. What a sales gal I am.
0:53.2	It's a tale as old as time.
0:55.7	Man moves to New York City to be a novelist.
0:58.7	Man falls in love with a free-spirited woman he meets at a party in Brooklyn.
1:03.5	Man and woman fall in love and have a baby, even though the man is like, I don't want to have a baby.
1:08.3	You can have a baby.
1:09.5	But I want to write a book.
1:12.5	But the man and the woman have a baby. You can have a baby. But I want to write a book. But the man and the woman have a baby and life is pretty wonderful. And then the woman gets cancer and the man takes care of her.
1:18.1	And then the woman dies and then there is just the man. And the baby he didn't really want to have
1:23.2	and is now solely responsible for. And so much grief, and stress, and chaos.
1:31.8	Maybe this is not a tale as old as time, but it is a tale that is at least 10 years old at
1:36.4	this point, and it is a tale that belongs to Charles Bach, the author of the memoir, I Will
1:42.3	Do Better. Parenting is difficult even in the very best of
1:47.3	circumstances. Even if the baby of your dreams arrives easily and happy and healthy and you have all
1:53.7	of your needs met, you are still embarking on the uncharted journey of raising a human being
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