"Look," Andrew said, "You and I have both been through experiences taht were not so typical of most kids. One of the things I learned, and you should have too, is that no adult should have a kid for any other reason except that they want that kid and they love him or her. That's the only reason. Ever. If you're feeling pressured into having kids just to keep the bloodline going, then you're doing it for the wrong reasons. Bloodlines change every time we become intimate with another human being. Our blood mixes with someone else's and that becomes, in essence, a new bloodline. Its the way we humans are.
"Stop putting yourself under all kinds of unnecessary pressure about keeping the Nye family line going. Honestly, I think it will happen naturally, in its own time, when you're old enough. And then it will be because its somethng you want to do with the right guy, at the right time. When you're wanting to be a mom and he wants to be a dad.
"One of the things Robert taught me is that, for right now, at our age, its perfectly okay for us to run, laugh, have fun, study, enjoy our friends and just be kids. He told me we didn't need to be thinking about having kids of our own yet because, as he said to me, 'You're not done being a kid yet. You need to do that job first.' He believes that we need to do one job at a time and as second years, we're not done being kids yet. So--maybe we just need to have a little fun first? Does that sound weird?"
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