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

that replaced it. My husband Daniel and I had come to a kind of peace with it — or what I believed was peace, which I now understand is sometimes just the absence of active pain, the body’s way of letting you rest between rounds.

So when my younger sister Cara got pregnant, I decided I was going to be extraordinary about it.

I know how that sounds. Martyrdom continue reading …