The girls were born earlier than expected. At first, there was joy in the maternity ward. Two tiny voices filled the room. Maria smiled through her tears, while Daniel stood near the door, unable to speak.
But very quickly, a strange silence appeared inside that happiness.
The doctors examined the babies longer than usual. They looked at one another with the kind of expression a mother never forgets. It was the look of people who knew something but did not want to say it right away.
At first, they said the girls were weak, that they had been born prematurely, and that they needed special monitoring. But Maria felt that the truth did not end there.
Weeks later, the first signs began to appear. The girls had difficulty gaining weight. Their skin seemed unusually thin, their hair began to fall out, and the veins on their heads became more visible. Their bodies remained very small, and their facial features began to change in a way no one had expected.
