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”

“Is this your first child?”

That question destroyed Chloe for an afternoon.

Healing was not a switch activated by a memorial.

It was accumulation.

PART 34 — THE “FIRST CHILD” QUESTION

What do you say?

Yes?

No?

Chloe eventually developed an answer.

“He is our only living child.”