I have two thoughts swirling around in my head.

First, I know this woman, she's about 5'9", very in shape, svelte and beautiful. She's always had a small chest (read A cup). I used to see her everyday outside but for the last couple months I haven't seen her at all. Come to find out she breast augmentation surgery and, as a result, has been holed up "healing" according to her husband. However, the scoop is that she's denying the implants and has told a few people that she did not have surgery. When The Husband has seen her and others, she holds her arms across her chest or otherwise attempts to hide her breasts. Her husband has said that she had the surgery and she has, apparently, told one or two people about it. I believe she is an adult and I'm happy for her for her surgery if it makes her feel better about herself but I'm trying to figure out why someone would try to hide it? I mean.... especially to the people that you see everyday. Could it be that she's embarassed? But surely she would have known before going into the surgery that people would notice. You can't go from an A cup to a full C or D cup without people noticing... not in today's society.

Second thought process. I have a neighbor, bless her heart, who's first husband passed from cancer right after they bought their house (we've lived here in this new development for 6 years) and they had a 6 month old child. Obviously, the child never knew his father and she single parented for a few years before she remarried. Quite some time ago she was telling me how her son receives a monthly check from social security. It's a large sum and, if I remember, it is close to $2,000 a month. He will continue to receive this sum until he is 18 or is adopted by another man. Her current husband treats this child like his own, the child calls him Dad, they have another baby together as well.... but the husband has never adopted the child because of this social security money. I'm conflicted. On the one hand, this child will never know his biological father and that father did pay into the social security system throughout his adult life (the amount per month the child is given is based, apparently, on the father's contributions during his lifetime). On the other hand, these people just bought a house worth at the very least 1.5 million dollars and, I would expect, more than that given the area it is in. They are also planning to retire in less than 8 years (they are in their early 40s) and have quite a stock portfolio... so my thought dilemma... should these people be avoiding the adoption of the child in order to retain the monthly social security payments when they have so much more than so many others in our society and when our society is hurting for money to help out those with less?