Main Character Syndrome
Reading about the psychopath that blew up the IVF center in California gave me so many mixed emotions, least of which this asshole decided his opinion of the world trumped everyone else’s opinion of the world.
I don’t get how people think it’s ok, or even reasonable, to force their worldviews on others.
Like, that’s the ultimate in main character syndrome I can imagine.
But I digress.
Perfect Circles dropped me a line recently.
Her: Pregnant again! Number three joining us in August. Plainly we’ve lost our minds but it just felt like the gang wasn’t all here yet.
Me: That’s amazing, congrats!! Oh man, that was my dream, to have three kids. Alison only ever wanted to have two. Sigh.
Told her that I was thrilled for her, which is true.
But then that got me thinking: I’ve got a few embryos out in the world that I’m still struggling to figure out what to do with.
I’ve always wanted another child but that doesn’t appear to be in the cards.
In any case, one idea was to donate them to couples in need – ie, a couple that can’t produce a child on their own.
I seriously considered it in the past, but there’s an interesting phenomenon where people that are biologically related – a fact that they often don’t know initially – find each other and fall in love.
There’re a buncha stories like this:
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- Reddit reported revealed that a woman found out her six-year relationship with her boyfriend was really a six-year relationship with her biological brother after taking a DNA.
- A Mississippi couple found out that – not only were they brother and sister – they were also twins!
- A lesbian couple have suspicions that they might be half-siblings but plan on remaining a couple.
- A couple from Brazil – with a six-year-old child – found out that they were actually brother and sister, both of whom were abandoned by their mother as children. The kicker is that they found this out together and live on the radio.
It’s not hard to see how they might fall in love; after all, we’re equal parts nature and nurture.
In fact, you can see how a hypothetical conversation might go:
Him: I love 80s music.
Her: Me too, my favourite band is Duran Duran.
Him: OMG, me too! I went to their last concert in London back in 2022.
Her: Wait, I was there too!
I’d read about this phenomenon ages ago but I was recently reminded of it when I visited my sister the other day.
I never told her that I fixed my bathroom but when I went to use her newly renovated bathroom, I found out that:
We both picked the same shower head – in the same colour to boot!
AND we picked the exact same tiles!
These are hers…
…and these are mine.
Again, we both did our bathrooms without discussing it with the other.
Anywho, yeah, I don’t think I’ll give those embryos away…
Location: the wet rain
Mood: brrrrrrr
Music: Tell me all the things that you like (Spotify)
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