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UK slash wondery. So we had this vision of how family life was going to unfold. And then along came

Casey and upended everything. And I wrestled against his nature at first and tried to change him because he made me uncomfortable.

He was in some ways kind of inconvenient.

Everything seemed like a fight, even the smallest things.

And he challenged our most kind of deeply held beliefs.

And I spent the first few years of his life trying to change him until I realized

I was the one who needed to change. It was my own immaturity and inability to control myself,

not Casey, that was the issue. Casey was merely a mirror, a reflection backed me in so many ways.

And in that reflection, I had to come face to face with my

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