I did not know that in a year he would be my whole family.

I only knew, in that moment, that a child was dying, and that everything else in the world — including a wedding — had just become very small.

Chapter 3 — Five Hours

For the next five hours, every thought of my wedding vanished completely from my mind, because there was no room in it for anything but the small life on my table.

I will not describe the surgery in detail, both because the details belong to Paisley and because they are not the point.