Didi (p. 4): “But then, suppose your friends manage to get pregnant. That can be really difficult to deal with. Of course, you’re glad for them, but you’re longing to be in the same position yourself. And you see a big change in them: they’re going to be parents, they’re going to have a baby, and they’re moving on to a whole new phase in their life.”

Bjorn and Bertha (p. 5): “She said she was pregnant, and the baby was giving her trouble. Well, you wish your friends would shut up about that kind of thing. I mean, it’s not very tactful to say ‘Oh, the baby’s giving me such terrible lower back pain’ when you know that I’m thinking I’d give anything to have lower back pain if I knew that I would be expecting a baby at the end of it.”