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Chapter 14 - RICHARD COMES TO THE HOSPITAL

He requested to see the babies.

Hospital security asked me.

I said:

“Not me.”

“What about NICU?”

That involved parental rights.

Richard was their father.

No protective order yet barred contact.

Hospital legal and NICU social work created a plan.

He could visit the babies with staff boundaries.

Not enter my room.

Not confront me.

That hurt.

He held June.

A nurse later told me because I asked.

He cried.

He placed one finger into Eli’s tiny hand.

He stayed forty minutes.

He did not try to take them.

People wanted me to interpret that as proof he was good.

Or proof he was manipulative.

Neither.

He loved his children.

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He had also helped prevent their mother from reaching medical care.

People can contain both.

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