Naturally, I do blame Françoise. I blame her for having N in the first place. She was young, she was beautiful, she was married to a doctor, and she was intelligent. She could have abstained from producing her first son. It was wrong on a variety of levels.

Suzanne Finnamore
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When she reached her early 30s, Françoise decided to have a child with her husband. While most people would say it was natural to have the child, Françoise was not one of them. She had a difficult time with the pregnancy and had miscarriages. As the pregnancy continued, she felt that the baby was no longer wanted which lead her to deliver it in an operating room at Saint Luke's Hospital in New York City.

She even wrote letters to her unborn son asking him if he preferred his father or his mother for him to be with. When she found out that she was pregnant again, she said that she did not want the child.

Source: Split: A Memoir Of Divorce

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