She Ordered Me to Make My Crying Newborn Be Quiet or Get Out of Her House — Three Years Later I Sat at a Playground and Watched My Daughter Shriek With Joy at the Bottom of a Slide, Loud and Free and Afraid of No One

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Wright came out at last, and the first thing he did — before any words — was give me a small nod, and I felt my knees go.

“She’s all right,” he said.

“She’s frightened, and she’s going to have a small bruise, and we’re going to keep her a few hours to watch her, because with an infant we take every knock seriously and we don’t take chances.

But I’ve examined her thoroughly, and I’m not seeing any sign of serious injury.