Adam Hester/Getty ImagesThe questions usually come after the lights are off — innocent, unplanned, impossible.It was the night of my 39th birthday, and I was lying in the dark beside my 4-year-old son, watching him as he drifted toward sleep. I know he’s close when he rests his right cheek on the pillow, facing away from me, his body finally slowing down.Turning 39 left me thinking about everything I got wrong over the last year. I reflected back, taking stock of everything I’d failed at. All the ways I’d messed things up. What I hadn’t done. What I still hadn’t figured out. The things I thoug...
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