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the sperm could join the egg and you could start growing to be a baby your mother and your father had first to learn to know and love each other. Your father needed to be sure that he had found the woman whom he would like to have become the mother of his children. Your mother needed to be sure that she had found the man whom she would like to have become the father of her children.

Ever since they had grown up each of them had been looking for a mate, that is, for a person with whom to marry and to share children. Perhaps they did not think that they were doing this, but they were. We all do this as soon as we are grown up. Each of us, although usually not knowing it, looks for his or her mate, that