Not tonight.

You don’t have to react a particular way and you don’t have to say anything.

I’ve been carrying it for a long time and I’d like to just put it down.”

Then she opened it.

On top there was a hospital bracelet, the kind they put on newborns, the size of a bracelet you could put on two fingers.

It said BABY BOY MARCHETTI and a date in July and a weight.

Marchetti.