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This article is from the Good Things About
Having Kids FAQ, by Benjamin V.C. Collins,
collins@campus.mlc.edu with numerous contributions by others.
48 Good Having Kids Answer
: There's nothing like it, nothing at all.
Yes, yes, yes! I became pregnant quite unexpectedly at 40
after being told for years that I could not conceive. I had never wanted
kids, being a career oriented "workaholic." But now... What I never
could have known before: a child is not a "child" but a real person.
That sounds a bit naive, but I never understood that until Maggie, and
now every day I delight in getting to know this real person who has come
to live with me, the way she thinks about the world, the way she cares about
me. One night when we were driving home, I got lost. I
kept making wrong turn after wrong turn, and I was starting to panic.
Maggie was sitting quietly in her car seat, and suddenly she said, "Don't
cry Mommy, it's okay." She was only 22 months then, and it just keeps
getting better. I never had any idea I could feel so deeply.
Nancy
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