After 3 Boys, We Gave Up Our Dream of a Daughter—Then My Husband Called Me to the Hospital and Said, “There’s a Baby Here”
Part of me was disappointed.
I wanted Clara to have chosen us.
To have left something saying:
If anything happens, please give my baby to Uncle Marcus and Sarah.
But life rarely provides that kind of neat permission.
Instead, we found photographs.
A picture of Clara at sixteen holding Leo when he was a toddler.
A picture of Brenda.
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