You won’t know just how much I love you until the day you feel your own child move inside you, or the day you hold them in your arms.

Young perspectives matter here. The wisdom of parenthood is proportional to the number of hours we spend listening and talking to children.

When your soul aches for a child, there is little soothing that can be done.  The path of infertility can be daunting and cruel with no guarantee of a happy ending. 

What can I say about how these biological differences seem to give many the right to label, underestimate, and misjudge her?

I’d never thought about the what-if scenarios of my death. Mia’s a badass kid. She’s resilient. We’ve been through so much, I think she can make it through just about anything.

And if you fall in love with a man and you spark and you make a life filled with love, and laughter and experiences that make you feel the world was made just for you, just like this life feels for me, you will find no one in the world more delighted and happy for you than me.