Everything moved quickly after that. She was taken through to the labor ward with Franklin right beside her, his hand finding hers and staying there, his voice low and steady in her ear even when his own heart was clearly hammering away behind his ribs.He said whatever came to him, that she was doing so well, that he was right there, that she was the strongest person he had ever known, and whether or not any of it actually helped, the fact that his voice was there helped, and she held onto it.The gynecologist looked up at one point, her tone matter-of-fact but not unkind. "If you want to come see, you can. Come watch your baby arrive."Franklin moved forward without hesitating, stepping around to where he could see, and the moment the baby's head appeared, that small, perfect, impossible crown of life pressing into the world for the first time, the room tipped sideways.Franklin grabbed the nearest surface.The dizziness that took him was total and immediate, the kind that doesn't n
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