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New mantra:
Doing something is better than doing nothing.
[I don't think this is true for everyone all of the time, but it's true for me most of the time.]

in a way, this builds on my old mantra, which was:
it is better to make brownies than not to make brownies.

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In case anyone else is interested, I did a literature search on fertility following adoption. (See discussion in previous post.)

American Journal of Obstetric Gynecology says no, or did in 1979.  Journal of Psychosomatic Medicine (perhaps unsurprisingly) questions the validity (pdf link) of many past studies.

I'm not utterly convinced.  It seems likely to me that for certain specific causes or types of infertility, adoption or taking care of children may have a significant effect on fertility (probably female fertility).

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I also uploaded a bunch of photos to take advantage of Flickr's monthly upload limit--today's the last day in May.