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”
Julian collected stories about older relatives dismissing assisted reproduction.
I collected the nurse’s six words.
Fear builds narratives quickly.
The answer is not pretending fear is irrational.
It is checking whether the narrative is complete.
I did that slowly.
The nurse did not mean Julian had smuggled one baby out and returned with another.
The legal form was not adoption paperwork.
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