text:  Fortunately, no. Brooke and I did experience miscarriages on our route to conceiving our child. But fortunately, we haven't experienced the loss of a child. Every time I sit down to write a book, I think of the same three questions in there. What do I want to see in the world? What do I want to learn about? And what am I most afraid of? And that child loss is the answer to the third. I put in the book as a means of