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”

He stared.

“I had to convince myself that not having a daughter wasn’t a loss.

I had to stop thinking about the name.

I had to stop looking at baby clothes.

I had to stop imagining her.”

Marcus’s eyes filled again.

“I know.”

“And now you call me to a hospital and there happens to be a newborn girl with no mother and you kneel down and call her our daughter?”