I finally got to meet my son’s newborn—then a nurse leaned in and whispered, “That’s not the baby he left with.”

pregnant?” I asked.

He laughed. “You always were impossible to surprise.”

I cried right there in my kitchen.

I had wanted this for them so badly. For months after that, I kept asking when I should visit. Did they need help setting up the nursery? Did Nora want company? Should I come for the baby shower?

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