Why My Children Will Not Be Mine - by Nicholas Decker
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I hope
Why My Children Will Not Be Mine At least, I hope Nicholas Decker Mar 23, 2026 44 61 14 Share I would like to have kids. I’m quite set on this. I feel that I would be very happy raising them. I think that I would find joy and purpose in helping them grow and learn and do great things. I am filled with a great yearning that is not entirely in my control, the same yearning which I imagine must affect the salmon as they travel up the river or the goose to fly south for the winter. I also have a sense in which it is my duty to procreate – the world becomes richer as there are more people in it, an
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