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Do we need to be so competitive?

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Terrell Johnson
Mar 26, 2019
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The first time I heard this phrase, it would be many years before I had a family of my own. Now that I have a son in pre-K and a teenage stepdaughter, I’ve learned the truth of it deep down in my bones:

“Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.”

I’ve learned this espe…

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