SO THIS IS HOW IT ALL STARTED.

Well, obviously, it’s not exactly how it started (that would be a slightly different kind of book)

I was never particularly interested in having kids.

I liked them in an abstract sense, in the same way that excercise seems appealing, but in practice, utterly tedious. When friends came over with their kids, I treated them like radioactive material. Tolerable for short periods of time.Prolonged exposure would have unpleasant effects, like hair loss, or inexplicable stains on the sofa.