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A Love Letter from San Francisco
February 13, 2008 - Wednesday
Posted by Corey
Happy Valentine’s Day. I wish all of you love. Love from your partners, from your children, and most especially, from your children to come. Love of self. Love of life.
Valentine’s Day and all that it represents was heavy on my mind last Sunday, at The AFA’s first Family Matters Conference in San Francisco. I didn’t know if I would be writing a love letter today, or my own obituary! But the Conference was a smashing success, far beyond our own expectations. People poured out of their homes and drove into the beautiful national park which is the Presidio.
Truly, our faculty, comprised of compassionate, knowledgeable physicians and attorneys, as well as other reproductive health professionals, changed people’s lives on Sunday.
For me, the seminal moment came at the end of the day. A young couple; beautiful, polished, in fabulous clothing (you know them, right? The kind that you see walking down the street and you just know that they have it all? That couple) came up to me and said that they had been trying to have a baby for two years, and couldn’t. They just couldn’t. They said that they had learned more in that one day at the Presidio than they had in the past two years of trying. And I remembered. Oh that’s right, this is why I do this work. This for me, represents one of the greatest loves of my own life. Love of purpose.
Please know that like the rest of the staff of The AFA—Ken, Melinda, Anne and Lisa, my purpose, our collective purpose, is to support you, in making your fondest dream come true.
Love always,
Corey
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