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We Don't Deserve This

You probably agree with the title. But maybe for completely different reasons than I mean.  Before Trista and I posted anything to Facebook or created a GoFundMe account, we both considered what we were doing very carefully.  It may not seem like it, but that was not an easy thing for us to do.  Anyone who knows me, knows I am pretty much an open book; if you look up the word "transparency" in the dictionary there would be a picture of me next to it.  Trista on the other hand, is not a sharer, not by a longshot. She likes to quietly contemplate, and rarely opens up, except to a select few, and even that can be a struggle. But in this area of my life I mirrored Trista. I was a complete failure at getting my wife pregnant and becoming a father.  It's not that I can't talk about my failures, but this wasn't like other struggles in my life.  Other times, there were things I could do to improve the skill or learn more about it.  I was stuck, literally going thro