Terza Rima Day 17 Life

This Month Kat Myrman has suggested a new theme for the daily poem—the Terza Rima, writing one stanza each day.
A terza rima consists of stanzas of three lines (or tercets) usually in iambic pentameter. It follows an interlocking rhyming scheme, or chain rhyme. This is where the middle of each stanza rhymes with the first and last line of the following stanza. There is no set length to this form, as long as it follows

I shall be joining Kat Myrman and Jane Dougherty in this challenge.

Life… A Terza Rima,

We had a girl who could not stay

The a boy who nearly didn’t too

But after a dicey start he is with us to this day.

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Installment 17 of Life for this month’s Terza Rima Daily Poem Challenge, one tercet at a time