But it seems to me that there are three groups of people in this world when it comes to having children: those who know definitively that it’s not for them; those who know definitively that it is; and those who assume they are in the second group, due to societal expectations or the ignorance of youth, but realize after the fact that they could be happy either way yet now can’t say anything, because the kids are listening. I’m very much in awe of the first two groups, and I think there are more of us than we realize in the last. That’s all. I love my kids; I also dream of an empty nest. Am I
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