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you should probably have a kid

a letter to a friend

She was just a tiny bundle of instincts before, but the full light of consciousness is really truly dawning in her now, her eyes bright like my wife's and her lashes long and black like mine, her giggle and smile all her own. Your kids get direct hardwired access to your brain stem, the part that instantly spikes your heart rate and crunches your shoulders up to your ears, and they aren’t shy about using it. “It will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, hot, slow, consumer-hell type situation as not only meaningful, but sacred, on fire with the same force that made the stars: love, fellowship, the mystical oneness of all things deep down.”

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