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Chapter 47
It was the morning of my first sonogram. I nervously looked up at the ceiling as I lay on the cold exam table. My dad and my friend Brittany bounced in their seats. I rubbed my stomach absentmindedly. It had only just started to show and a smile crawled into my lips as I felt a faint flutter.
Brittany chuckled at that. “Oh, I saw that. That right there is a football player.” She rubbed her own stomach. She, herself, was pregnant and we had bonded over it.
“Brit!” my dad chuckled. “We don’t know if it is a boy or a girl.”
We laughed until the doctor walked in and greeted us.
“Well, Lily, are you ready to see your baby?”
She turned on the ultrasound machine and shot out a cold jelly over my stomach. She rolled the device over my belly with gentle pressure.
My heart thumped rapidly as I took in the black and white screen and expected to struggle. But it wasn’t. She could see it clearly
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