It wasn't too many years later that the two got married and the children started coming, one by one. Almost before they could realize what was happening, they had their seven children. It was an impossible question to answer, because they had no intention of stopping anything. They got to know other happy, well-adjusted Catholic families twice their size and saw no reason to stop having children. Seven isn't all that many, or eight, or nine except when six or more of them all want to use the toilet at the same time.
Confession is good for the soul, so it's time to come clean.
Yes, my wife and I were the young couple in question. Neither of us ever did finish college. There were good years, materially speaking, but just as many bad years, too. In some ways we are better off now than when we were just married. In other ways we were better off back then.