Neither could simply wake up and return to the life they had known.
A baby changes everything.
The attention surrounding them made things even harder.
Once their story became public, strangers felt entitled to discuss their lives.
Some people expressed sympathy.
Some criticized the teenagers and their families.
Others treated the story almost like entertainment.
But there was a crucial difference between discussing the circumstances and understanding what it meant to live through them.
The two teenagers weren’t celebrities.
They were young people trying to navigate an extraordinary situation.
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