If you find yourself drawn to an event against all logic, go. The universe is telling you something.

The only thing I can't stand is discomfort.

But why didn't you leave? Why didn't you take my sister and go to New York?" she would say it didn't matter, that she was lucky to have my sister and me. If I pressed hard enough, she would add, "If I'd left, you never would have been born." I never had the courage to say: But you would have been born instead.

Rich People plan for three generations
Poor people plan for Saturday night

Life's walk is turning pages with feet rather than fingertips

That is almost impossible to do -- to prove that a pregnancy would literally cause you to lose your life.