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

holding my nephew for the first time in the three weeks he had been alive, and I felt something in my chest that was made of grief and gratitude in proportions I couldn’t separate.

That was when I noticed the Band-Aid.

It was on his left thigh, small and beige, slightly askew. I wouldn’t have thought anything of it except for its placement — not the continue reading …