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Building a life

“If you didn't become a parent — by choice, by chance, by circumstance — what has the absence of that role given or taken from your life?”

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The freedoms, the questions, the work you've done with other people's children, or the peace you've had to find.

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What do you most want anyone assuming a childless life is an incomplete one to understand?

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