Birth details.

Weight at delivery.

The diagnosis, confirmed on day four.

The clinical, careful, dispassionate language of a system describing a human being in the only terms it knows how to use.

And then I turned to the second page, and I read something there, and I stopped, and I read it again, because I did not believe it the first time.

I read it a second time to be sure my eyes were not inventing it out of the strange emotional weather of that morning.