She Gave Birth Alone but Moments Later the Doctor Saw Something That Made Him Break Down

in the room simultaneously. The laugh of a person who had needed to laugh at something and found it in an entirely unexpected place.

“What are you going to name him?” he asked.

She had been carrying a small list of names in her head for weeks, rotating through them, testing each one against the face she had not yet seen. None of them had settled.

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