The story is intended as a weird cyberpunk riff on Nabokov's Lolita , with distinct quantum-relativistic overtones. First, much of the reminiscing in A New Lo is done by a character who actually appears in Lolita , but gets maybe four sentences all together. And a key observation that Lo's husband may be so stupid as to be dangerous. Cut back to Lo. Doesn't look good for her.
Stupid mates can killya', it seems ever more clear.
As in the novel itself, Lo and her girl-child do endure a very unlucky childbirth on Christmas Day. More obscene poetry. Suggests maybe something survived, though. Couple more quatrains, one using actual first two lines of one poem in the actual book, one cutely mentioning a couple of currently sexy cyber-ladies. Tying up loose ends.