I Was Told My Newborn Had Died—Then My Eight-Year-Old Son Asked Why Daddy Had Paid Aunt Rachel to Take the Crying Bundle

I thought that was what was inside.”

He hesitated.

“I couldn’t see inside.”

“That’s all right.

You don’t have to fill in what you didn’t see.”

His shoulders loosened slightly.

“Why didn’t you tell me sooner?”

The question came out before I could reconsider it.