After delivering a baby for a lonely mother, the doctor looked at the newborn’s face and dropped his instruments in shock. He stared into the baby’s distinct amber eyes and whispered, “where is the woman who brought you here?” The mother pointed to her bag, revealing an old photograph that solved a twenty-year-old mystery…

like a man carrying a priceless glass vase he knew he had already dropped once before.

The birthday gathering was intimate. Just me, Noah, Robert, Logan, Carla the social worker, Rosie from the diner, and Mrs. Higgins from apartment 3B. I had baked cheap funfetti cupcakes from a cardboard box, haphazardly slathering them in bright blue frosting. Noah continue reading …