For a long moment, I just stared at her, afraid that if I blinked, she might disappear back into the dream I’d been having.
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I woke to the soft beeping of a monitor.
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Four years of pregnancy tests and negative results, of doctor’s appointments and quiet tears in the bathroom while Ethan pretended not to hear.
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“You and our little girl are my whole world,” he had whispered the night we finally saw two pink lines. He had said it a hundred times since.
When I found out I was finally pregnant, I cried tears of joy!
Four years of pregnancy tests.
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The pregnancy itself had been the happiest stretch of my life. But the delivery had not.
Twenty-one hours of labor, monitors screaming, a nurse pulling Ethan back by the shoulders while doctors wheeled me down a hallway that felt a mile long.
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“Please save them!” I heard him shout as the doors closed between us.
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A nurse pulling Ethan back.
