When I saw Tatjana standing on the corner of Mimi’s on Mardi Gras day, I knew instantly that my life had changed. Similarly, when I first laid eyes on Tin – held up to me half dressed in a strange house by someone I had just met on the phone, I took one look into his eyes and I have never looked away. It’s not just because he was a baby or that I wanted a baby, it was Tin, I knew this with all my being.<\/p>\n
When I drove through the snowstorm with him in the backseat and me white-knuckled to get to where we were going, I felt my mom’s presence in the car and I felt that he was part of my life before I met him. I knew that he had always been part of my life.<\/p>\n
These are things that religion cannot describe, new age spirituality can only touch on, these are things that you know viscerally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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