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    <title>How to Make a Family: The Blog</title>
    
    
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    <updated>2011-12-30T10:44:28-06:00</updated>
    <subtitle>The Baby-Making Industry from Every Conceivable Angle.</subtitle>
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        <title>Never Mind The Menopause. There's A Tsunami of Children.  </title>
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        <published>2011-12-30T10:44:28-06:00</published>
        <updated>2011-12-30T10:44:28-06:00</updated>
        
        <author>
            <name>Tracy Morris</name>
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    <content type="html">What's more alarming: menopause or tsunamis of babies? It all depends on your perspective.&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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    <entry>
        <title>Quick Hit: Pioneers Have More Babies</title>
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        <published>2011-11-08T11:21:35-06:00</published>
        <updated>2011-11-08T11:21:35-06:00</updated>
        
        <author>
            <name>Tracy Morris</name>
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    <content type="html">Do you ever wonder what the Big Picture will look like for humans once we've truly nailed this whole "I want a baby, therefore, I will have one" thing? I ponder it constantly. &lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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    <entry>
        <title>And Always Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide</title>
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        <published>2011-10-07T07:00:00-05:00</published>
        <updated>2011-10-06T19:11:16-05:00</updated>
        
        <author>
            <name>Tracy Morris</name>
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    <content type="html">Is that Jiminy Cricket you hear whistling in the halls of your fertility clinic? Nah. That's just a Practice Manager.&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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    <entry>
        <title>I Just Want You All To Have Plain Ol' Health Insurance</title>
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        <published>2011-09-27T10:26:50-05:00</published>
        <updated>2011-09-27T10:26:50-05:00</updated>
        
        <author>
            <name>Tracy Morris</name>
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    <content type="html">At the risk of sounding like a crabby old mama who finally got hers and has no memory left, I feel compelled to finally say what I think about the notion of insurance for infertility treatment.&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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        <title>Infertiles Speak Bigger Truths Than They Realize</title>
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        <id>tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83420067a53ef015434992eeb970c</id>
        <published>2011-08-17T11:02:52-05:00</published>
        <updated>2011-08-17T11:02:52-05:00</updated>
        
        <author>
            <name>Tracy Morris</name>
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    <content type="html">It's a tough thing to do, re-writing our stories. Some of us find ourselves in circumstances that make those revisions essential to our existence here. Bringing it up out there in "the Fertile World" is our way of offering what we've learned, not about infertility, but about living life. &lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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