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I didn’t know if I’d ever have kids. Finding wife huge limiting factor. Asked a gay couple dads about egg donors. I’d be a single dad. Being happy or satisfied? 2009 hits. Unmarried, broke, childless at 39. Loser trifecta. I met my now wife in 2010 but wouldn’t marry...

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