I Became a Surrogate for My Brother — But When He Saw His Newborn Baby, He Rejected Her, and the Reason Made Me Go Pale.

I sent photographs without captions that begged.

He answered late and short, then less short.

He said he was talking to someone whose job was questions, and that the questions were harder than the flight.

I told him he could love Maya as an uncle or love her from a distance or take a year to learn the difference.

I would not use a baby to pin him to a city.

Chloe’s case became a local story I refused to clip.