I Was About to Propose to Another Woman When Four Six-Year-Old Boys With My Face Led Me Back to the Family I Never Knew I Had.
She said yes.
It was a small permission.
I treated it as something worth earning again.
The conversation with the boys took place on a Saturday.
Lauren spoke to them first.
I waited in a nearby coffee shop until I got a text:
“You can come.”
I found all 4 sitting on the couch.