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Cassandra Pratt was on her way into work when she received the notification that her most recent embryo transfer had failed. The news was the latest in a series of challenges Pratt had faced in her fertility journey, and the office was the last place she wanted to be.
“I was maybe about 100 yards from the train when I realized that I could not do it,” she recalls. “I knew I needed to turn around and go home.”
Paola Peralta is an Associate Editor at Employee Benefit News and has been with the team for five years. She is a proud UCF journalism graduate who got her start through a Dow Jones News Fund … Read full bio
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