[WP] Designing children is now possible. Your child is now a teenager and you are dealing with the consequences.

It is too easy to be a parent these days. I still remember the nurse rolling the little battery run cart with about two hundred little drawers down the hall and into the room where my wife and I were nervously holding our breath. The nurse, his name was Manny, would proceed to interrogate each of us individually, “Would you prefer nose A, or nose B? What is your favorite color? Which sports teams did you grow up watching? That cancer on your mom’s side; can you explain what it entailed in more detail?” The Designer Child™ industry was booming, and we were sucked into the craze.

You pay, or secure, $125,000 and meet with a nurse (some preferred to be called Designers) over the course of the nine month pregnancy. Before you can pay the first installment (of many) to the financers, a Designer Baby™ is sitting in your hands looking into your eyes with a blue which betters a cold water contrasted against the arctic glow of her white skin. Our child was perfect, and we named her April after her grandmother’s birth month.

April had a charmed and beautiful childhood. Walking by the age of one, and doing math in preschool, she was always meant to take her parents’ hard work and investments and double them leaving a lasting impression upon the world. To carry on her parents legacy. Our fortune was her birthright.

So as I sit here watching April spin around laughing as she holds the bloody knife that just split the side of my neck I hear music playing in the background. It grows softer as the side of my vision fades to red. My wife must be gone now, I don’t hear her gargled screams anymore. It’s nice that her last words were my name, there are worse ways to go. There’s a Louie Armstrong record playing now. My daughter smiles and says, “Bye bye Daddy, I will be a good investment. You and Mommy are going to a place where you don’t have to be in my way anymore.” Why am I proud? My daughter smiling will be the last image before I go.

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