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And wasn't someone who imagined having kids. It wasn't part of her script.

I actually was very sure that that wasn't what was going to happen.

Until one day a feeling struck she remembers the exact day exact moment.

I was heading upstairs and I stopped midway up the stairs and I was like, huh, I would like to have a child.

It was like that word broodiness, like a chicken.

I don't know, it was like, I gotta go sit right now. She told her husband and less than a year later she gave birth to a daughter.

I do remember being absolutely just blown away with the level of love.

Motherhood still didn't feel obvious or easy for Anne day to day. But soon that broody feeling came over her again. She had two more kids.

It was almost as if I knew that these three human beings needed to come into my life.

As a mom, Anne clung to routine.

Bring the kids to school, make their dinners, clean up, repeat.

The routine went on. Fourteen years into being a mother, Anne was miserable. She felt

trapped in her marriage and she started asking herself these questions.

When had I been a happy person?

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