James Sexton

You know, like that's crazy.

If you drank, you know, a different amount of water and were less hydrated or more hydrated, you'd have had a different kid.

Like that's insane.

You know, so the magic of this pairing in this moment created this unique person.

So how could you ever regret it?

Like I have people who say to me, they're like, oh, I wish I'd never met him.

I'm like, you have three kids.

How could you say that out loud?

You know?

But even if you didn't have kids with somebody, like think about all you learned from like successful or unsuccessful relationships.

Like on a long enough timeline too, like so many of what looked like tragedies in your life or looked like, you know,

failures in your life were just like the chrysalis stage of great successes and the chrysalis stage of deep, deep feeling and knowledge that paid tremendous dividends in other aspects of your life.

I mean, you and I both had the shared experience of losing mom and going through, you know, extended illness and all of the pain and fear that comes with that and all the grief that comes with that and the way that it sneaks up on you and

But to say like, oh, you know, that was all bad.

Like no good came of that.

Like I don't believe that.

Like if I could press a button and my mom didn't have two years on hospice and horrible pain, of course, you know.

But like I...

I learned a lot from that and it taught me a lot and it shaped me a lot as I know it shaped you a lot.

And I think it changed the core of me.