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We met in college at a student protest and fell in love at first sight. Over the next thirty-five years, we occasionally thought about having children, but then another cause would appear, and the baby project would be set aside another year.

The decades followed each other faster than I thought possible, and one day, having a baby was no longer possible—but we could still adopt. Tom and I had started the adoption process when he died.
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