“We’ll find a solution.”
Not grieve.
Not heal.
Not survive.
Find a solution.

The solution arrived eight months later in a hospital room in Providence, wrapped in a pink blanket, born to a woman who signed away her rights before the epidural wore off.
A woman named Vanessa Vale.
But she was not Vanessa Vale then.
She was Nessa Rivera, twenty-four years old,continue reading …