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Chapter 5: Lets have a baby

Meet, flirt, date,fall in love, move in together, move countries together, get engaged, get married, have a baby.  Is that how the story goes? I guess that's how this story is going. Of course I just summarized 5.5 years of ups and downs, joys and sorrows, and many many moments into a sentence. I think we're much more than that, but sometimes its good to break it down. Sometimes its better to look at it for what it is. That's what happened. When I lived in Chile for three years, it felt like a lifetime, now I can some up that time of my life in a sentence or two. "Why did you move to Australia? How did you meet your husband?" "Oh, I lived in Chile for 3 years, we met there, Nico had residency in Australia and we decided to come over together for a while. That was three years ago...." There goes 6 years of my life in an opening sentence. I know its more than that, but we condense days, weeks, years, decades of life into sentences to help other...