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Twenty Weeks
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2026-10-27 02:00:00Dr. Fiona Reyes had delivered me twenty-six years ago, and she had the same cold hands and warm voice she'd had then.
"There," she said, turning the screen toward me. "Hello, little one."
The ultrasound room in the east wing of the house had been my grandmother's sewing room once. My grandfather had turned it into a private clinic the week I came home, without asking or telling me. He did everything like that. I'd been furious about it for about a day. Then I'd had my first appo
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