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\u201cI want to talk about something,\u201d Joseph said that evening, his thumb still scrolling through movie titles as if he were discussing the weather. \u201cMe and Ashley\u2026 we talked. She\u2019s just more equipped for what I want from life.\u201d<\/p>\n

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More equipped. The words were like a physical blow. Seven years of working overtime to pay for his community college degree. Seven years of putting my body through grueling IVF treatments, of injections and hormones and heartbreak. Everything I had given, everything I had sacrificed, he was tossing into the garbage because my own sister had whispered a few sweet words in his ear.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI want to talk about something,\u201d Joseph said that evening, his thumb still scrolling through movie titles as if he were discussing the weather. \u201cMe and Ashley\u2026 we talked. She\u2019s just more equipped for what I want from life.\u201d More equipped. The words were like a physical blow. Seven years of working overtime to pay…<\/p>\n

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