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Deep dive day deep Deep dive day. So Cecil you put a bunch of stories.

So Cecil does all the story hunting for us. So he puts all the stories in there and he

found these stories and I grabbed him because after I read through these stories,

I realized that they spoke to two different experiences.

So this is the story, the main story here is from time.

And it's called the parents who regret having children.

But I thought that these stories spoke to two different experiences that might be relevant for both of us.

It's parents who not only regret having children but also people who just don't want to have

children at all yeah yeah so it kind of these although the title of it is I think a

little more incendiary or like a little more attention grabbing also a little more

click baity yeah yeah baity. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. I really think that this article speaks to both experiences.

The experiences of maybe having children and having complicated or regretful feelings about it.

Yeah. Or less than joyful feelings about it or less than joyful

feelings about it and people that just don't want to have kids at all and I think

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