Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.
I'd storm heaven for you, if I knew where it was.
If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.
What you are is a question only you can answer.
Whether you function as welders or inspectors, the laws of physics are implacable lie-detectors. You may fool men. You will never fool the metal.
The rule for finding plots for character-centered novels, which is to ask: 'So what's the worst possible thing I can do to *this* guy?' And then do it.