The Photograph of a Newborn in a Yellow Knitted Hat
“I called the hospital records desk at six this morning, before the shift change.
Martha answered, because our mother used to bowl with her sister.”
“What did she find in storage?” I asked.
“Did she pull the folder?”
“Look,” Sarah said.
“She pulled the microfiche from eleven years ago.
There was a release form attached to the back of the stillbirth report, filed while you were in intensive care.”
She laid a photocopy flat beside the crullers.