While the past few weeks have been—at times—chaotic, sad, stupefying, depressing, unrelenting, and unfortunate—in the big scheme of things they have been wonderful: we started our family in earnest and got one beautiful child whose future is much brighter than the din of our recent moods would suggest. It might be right to say that this is a real “It was the best of times; it was the worst of times” moment in our lives. And while it is hard, there is no one else I can imagine who I’d rather have these “worst of times” with; or best of times. In light of our recent hardships, I’ve decided to
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