Karyn turned back to the cupboard and reached in saying, "I wish that neither of you had to be single mom. My mom never married my dad. We did okay, but I knew it has never been easy on her."
Karyn then realized what her hand had picked up to move so she could get a cup of her tea.
"Ut-oh." She said, turning to face the pregnant mother and daughter.
"Ut-oh?" Jane asked. "What do you mean, 'Ut-oh'?"
"I am so sorry but I picked up the rock to move it so I could get a cup for my tea and I was talking and thinking about how hard it was for my mom to be a single mom and I wished that neither of you had to be a single mom." Karyn said in one long run-on sentence without pausing for a breath.
"It is okay." Jane said, moving to Karyn. "Let me have the rock."
Karyn handed Jane the wishing rock. "I wish
