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K-U-O-W public radio

in Seattle.

It's

It's podcast time.

It's podcast time. I always wanted to be a mother.

So you think you're going to be a mama someday?

I never doubted I would be.

I might want to have one kid and I was lucky but I'm going to get one like the other women in my family and it's going to be mine I had no problem getting pregnant and then I had an easy pregnancy.

I think he would be a wonderful mother.

A straightforward delivery and ended up with a beautiful healthy baby.

And I am going to teach it to help me. So lucky. Teach it to help you? So

smooth. It's clean, I go to school. All according to plan. I drive them all in my big minivan. It's going to be different for my daughter.

She hasn't got a womb or any of the other parts needed to be a biological mother and the hormones

she will likely take will render her infertile as a male.

When I realized this, a layer of sadness moved into my life and hung around like a dark fog.

I'd like to be able to say the sadness was all or even primarily on my daughter's

behalf, but I can't. I grieved for myself. It was official. I wasn't going to be a

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