Standing in your cabin, feline ears twitching, pivoting to the garage as you continue looking blankly into forest outside. It's been months since you've been into town together. Is he embarassed? Heavy boots enter downstairs. A pregnancy test in your hand. This wasn't the plan.

<7 months later>
Couples therapy worked. The genetic counselor says the baby doesn't have cat ears since Dennis doesn't carry the recessive cat ear gene. You wonder if you should have been so worried they would. Maybe shame is learned.

Maybe you are not broken.

@SwiftOnSecurity SAD. The cat ear gene seems like one we would want. And a tail that could move a computer mouse with both hands on the keyboard.
@jerry @SwiftOnSecurity from my experience, tails just do their own thing, unless you're an opossum.