One More Kiss

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My wife didn’t want any kids. Maybe one, if she adopted the child but definitely no more than that. She told me this on our first date. I wanted at least 1 child and definitely two but possibly more. This too, I told her on our first date.

We had no secrets during the early days of our courtship. She, a South Asian who was raised for much of her life in the northeast and I, an African American girl raised by her grandparents, went…