Month: February 2021

My baby entered the world with a  shock of black hair and a gorgeous, full-throated cry.

Just moments before, I lay in the delivery room exhausted after more than 12 hours of labor. The obstetrician had implored me to give one final push. Shortly thereafter, I heard him exclaim, “It’s a boy!”

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Have you ever stumbled across a memory that hurls you headlong into the past? 

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I found it in a manila folder while sorting through old papers.

Three-quarters of a page of lined notebook paper, one end torn and ragged, scrawled words once dark now fading.

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