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Chapter 98: Finding Her Together

Author: Eleanor Vance
last update publish date: 2026-05-04 17:21:46

**Nadia**

Nobody tells you about the silence between the crying.

Everyone talks about the crying. The feeding schedule and the sleep deprivation and the learning curve of a person who is new to everything including existing. All of that I had been told about in various forms by various people with the particular enthusiasm of humans sharing hard-won information. What nobody mentioned was the silence between those things. The two in the morning stillness of a room with a sleeping baby and a body
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