This is the concluding part of the "Race AgainstSurvival "
So Katty was very surprised when they got Josh home and Richie began acting like a caring and attentive father.
Even though Katty was the one who had to feed Josh, Richie would sometimes get up at night to get the crying baby, and change his diaper, and then deliver him to Katty’s arms. Richie also seemed to be just as delighted by Josh as Katty – well,Katty assumed it was just about as much delight Richie was capable of, and she was pleased.
She began to have positive feelings towards Richie, possibly even love, because of the love he so clearly had for her baby.
These positive feelings did not necessarily transfer into the bedroom, though, and Katty really no longer cared to have sex with Richie. Not that she did not want to have sex, she just did not want to have sex with Richie.
Because she was married, she did not choose to seek sex elsewhere, but it did not really matter in the grand scheme of things, because during the first six months of Josh’s life,Katty was exhausted all the time. She went back to work two months after Josh was born, and she and Richie had alternating work shifts so that one of them was always with the baby.
Did she stayed with Richie for the rest of her life or did she go back to doing drugs? Who did Katty end up with? Answers are right in the book.
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