What they mention most: the first call, the matching, what happened when something went wrong, and the day the documents were finally in hand.
Dos veces nos dijeron que nuestros documentos estaban bien y dos veces volvieron rechazados. ReproLegal reconstruyó todo el expediente antes de presentar nada y salió a la primera. La videollamada con nuestra gestante fue el momento en que dejó de parecer papeleo.
Lo decidió la primera llamada. Preguntamos qué pasa si falla una transferencia y, en lugar de darnos ánimos, nos leyeron el número de la cláusula. Desde entonces todo ha sido igual de concreto.
Nuestro segundo ciclo no funcionó. Nadie desapareció ni endulzó la noticia: esa misma tarde nos explicaron qué había cambiado y cuánto costaría. Nuestra hija nació once meses después.
As a single father I had been turned away by two agencies before anyone would look at my passport. Here that was the first thing they checked, and by the end of the call I knew which two destinations were realistic and which were not.
We are two men and we expected the awkward pause. It never came. What we got instead was a map of which countries would put both our names on the certificate and what our embassy would want afterwards.
The part nobody prepares you for is the month after the birth, waiting on documents in a country you do not know. Sasha called every day, sometimes with nothing new to say. That mattered more than I can explain.