I Had Barely Finished Holding My Son’s Newborn Baby When a Nurse Pulled Me Aside and Whispered, “That Isn’t the Child He Left With”

I understood.

“And now?”

She watched Oliver bang a plastic truck against the patio.

“I think grief comes with us.”

Then:

“It just stops needing the whole house.”

I remembered that sentence.

PART 44 — JULIAN’S SECOND CHILD QUESTION

At a work event someone asked:

“How many kids?”