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Chapter 25 - The baby

My son Luke was born nine weeks after the kitchen attack.

Healthy.

Seven pounds, two ounces.

Rachel was in the hospital.

Ryan was not.

That was painful in ways I did not expect.

There were moments when I missed him.

Not the man from the kitchen.

The husband who assembled Caleb’s crib.

The father who cried when Mia was born.

The man who once drove three hours because I left my passport in a hotel.

Those memories did not disappear.

Neither did what he did.

May you like

Both existed.

I stopped believing healing required choosing only one version of the past.

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