They Left Me Alone At The End Of My Pregnancy And Went On A Luxury Trip

hand-holding and was quiet through the parts that required quiet and at the end of it there was a person I had not met yet who weighed seven pounds and four ounces and who looked at me from inside a hospital blanket with the unfocused, ancient alertness of something brand new.

I named him Daniel.

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