build a ladder to the stars
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"Once we go public I'm going to hear a thousand different opinions from conservative knobs and radical feminist bell-ends about my body and our baby. And that'll be nothing compared to what I'm going to think about it. I've spent so long making my body into one I can live with and now it's changing in ways I never imagined."
Trans man John gets pregnant by his boyfriend Paul, while being members of the biggest band in the world.
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- Part 1 of build a ladder to the stars
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He would be mad to do it all over again. And yet. He wanted Julia to have a sibling so she wouldn't grow up alone like he had. He wanted to give Paul another child. He knew he would miss being able to pick Julia up and carry her around and wanted to hold on to that feeling. Most of all he felt capable of having another baby, and raising that baby into a child with their own opinions and emotions.
John and Paul decide to have another baby. That's the easy part.
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- Part 2 of build a ladder to the stars
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John thought about the baby stuff in the attic that they'd put away after Alice outgrew it, and about names, and how certain he was that there would be no more children after this. He wondered what his younger self might think if he could go back and tell him.
The third and final Lennon-McCartney baby.
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- Part 3 of build a ladder to the stars