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Chapter 16 - MY POSTPARTUM MISTAKEThree weeks after discharge, I made my own bad decision.

I sent Claire photographs of the triplets.

Why?

Because she emailed:

I just want to know they’re okay.

Rebecca advised against contact.

Daniel advised against it.

I did it anyway.

Claire replied to the photo of Eli:

He’s beautiful.

Then:

I’m sorry I ever imagined he could be mine.

That should have ended it.

Instead I responded:

You built a nursery for him.

She wrote:

I built it because I was losing my mind.

I replied:

You tried to take my son.

She wrote:

I never touched him.

Then I sent something cruel:

Maybe there was a reason adoption kept failing.

I regretted it before she answered.

She did not answer.

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Pain does not become wisdom automatically.

Sometimes it becomes another weapon.

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