She Said I Couldn’t Hold The Baby Because Of “Germs” — The Real Reason Broke My Heart

that is falling. He startled at my hands, then seemed to register warmth and solidity, and the crying dropped almost immediately into quieter, shakier breathing, and then into silence, his face pressed against my collarbone with the complete, immediate trust of someone too young to have learned suspicion.

I stood in the living room of my sister’s apartment continue reading …