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”
“No.”
“And he does not make either death smaller.”
Chloe began sobbing.
“No.”
That became the first thing we truly agreed on.
PART 17 — THE FIRST HUG
Then I hugged her.
Not because everything was fixed.
Because she had nearly died.
Because she had undergone emergency surgery.