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”

Maybe not.

They still had embryos in storage for a time.

Those decisions involved legal, financial, ethical and emotional questions I did not volunteer opinions about unless asked.

Growth.

Julian joked:

“Mom finally discovered boundaries at sixty.”

I said:

“Better than never.”