part 2 The man who spent eleven years blaming me for our childlessness threw me out of our home9-008v

“A father doing the first useful thing he has been allowed to do in thirty years.”

I looked away because I did not know whether I could accept that word yet.

Father.

It seemed too large. Too soon.

But I accepted the room.

That night, alone beneath crisp white sheets, I listened to the city hum beyond the windows and placed both hands over my stomach.

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