I Called My Mom After Giving Birth and She Said She Was Too Busy With My Sister’s Party Until the Next Day They Came Begging

only this moment to become real. They placed her on my chest and she was warm and damp and trembling with the shock of existing, and I pressed my lips to her forehead and felt, for the first time in years, that something in my life was clean and untouched and entirely my own.

I should have known better than to reach for the phone.

I was still shaking.continue reading …