I almost didn’t answer the phone. We were halfway home, the car thick with that stunned, holy silence that follows a birth that isn’t yours and somehow is. Lucy’s hospital bracelet was still imprinting my wrist when the nurse’s voice cracked through the speaker, asking us to turn around. In the corridor’s fluorescent hum, time folded: 1998, 2:30 a.m., the first baby I lost, the second I’d just gained, all collapsing into the single, shattering syllable she spoke that made Michael slam on the brakes and my entire life spin sidew… Continues…
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