please, lwaxana, try to be calm. now, tell me why would your husband want to take your baby from you? he's tavnian. and..? they believe in strict separation of the sexes. boys are raised by men, girls by women. why, those poor children aren't even told the other sex exists until they're 16. and your child is male. uh-huh. and the day jeyal found out he said that he was going to take my baby away from me as soon as he was born. well, i told him that that isn't what we agreed-- but he changed his mind. during our wedding ceremony he spoke so beautifully about why he wanted to marry me but afterwards... it was as if i had become a piece of property in his eyes. so you ran away. and it wasn't easy, believe me. toward the end i was practically a prisoner in my own house. well, now that you've shown your husband how determined you are to be part of your boy's life perhaps he'll reconsider his position. oh, no, not jeyal. he's the most willful man i've ever met. oh! i'm so tired. i've never needed a friend more than i do ri