Heather Harpham: Life and Death, Love and Family.

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  Poof.

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  There was a little girl, and she was beautiful.

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  I went into that, you know, that inner dance of joy, that indescribable euphoria that new parents go into.

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  And that lasted a very short time before we were interrupted with the news that they were worried about the baby, and she needed some tests.

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  And it wasn't really more than an hour after they took her to do testing that they came back and said, she's really in trouble.

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  Her red cells are falling apart.

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  She doesn't have enough.

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  So imagine for a moment you're a young woman coming out of school on the west coast, moving to New York City to make it, to build your career, to study, to go deeper into building a life.

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  And somewhere along the way, you fall in love with a guy, and it's a wonderful, mad love affair, except there's one really big difference in the way that you see what you want.

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  You want a family and kids, and you see that as your future.

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  And he is deeply devoted to his craft and his career, and that includes no space for that.

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  And then one day, you get pregnant, and that sets in motion a whole new story between you.

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  Well, that's what happened to this week's guest, Heather Harvey, who's also the author of a new memoir called happiness that details this powerful journey.

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  What happened as she ended up moving back across country and back home without him and then giving birth to a beautiful baby girl and finding out shortly after that things were not okay and that, in fact, things were quite dire.

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  What unfolds from that moment forward and how she and he dealt with it, and how eventually the family came to define themselves very differently in the world.

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  That's where we go in today's conversation.

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  I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is good life project.

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  Towards the end of my second grad degree, which was in creative writing, I met someone and fell in love, as people do.

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  It was a very thrilling and totally absorbing experience.

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  It was that kind of everything is changed in your world, and you feel like your life is orbiting in this new way around the center of feeling for this person.

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