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We never planned on being parents.

Indeed, we planned on NOT being parents.

Over the years, I became a bit more ambivilent about remaining child free, but I never said anything because DH definitely wasn't interested.

Then came Sept. 11, and the collapse of the World Trade Center. In the extensive coverage that followed, we kept hearing about people's last thoughts being about their kids, about the legacy that they left in their children. Suddenly, we both were thinking about our marks on the world and what was really important. It was with those thoughts that DH asked me if I was interested in adopting (we had previously known about a fertility issue so knew we couldn't get pregnant without intervention). I jumped at the chance and the rest is history.