“Why, then?”

I looked at the ultrasound again.

“Because someday this baby may ask whether I tried.”

PART 4: A Letter That Should Have Reached Him

The next morning I called Miriam Feld, the attorney who had reviewed my divorce agreement.

She listened without interruption and then told me something practical: whatever Warren and I felt about one another, an expected child changed the legal and personal questions between us.

We needed to proceed carefully, in writing, with independent advice.