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The day I found out Brie Kerry was pregnant was our seventh wedding anniversary.I'd left work early to surprise her, planning to set everything up before she got home. But while I was hiding her gift in the cabinet, I found a prenatal test report tucked inside with her name on it.The words "12+ weeks pregnant" burned into my eyes like a hot iron.How could this be?Seven years ago, when we got married, Brie had cried and said she was afraid of the pain of childbirth, and more afraid of how hard it would be to raise a child."Can't it just be the two of us, for the rest of our lives?" she'd asked.It broke my heart to see her like that, so I booked a vasectomy the very next day.The doctor said the odds of conception afterward were next to zero.So there was no way Brie could be pregnant.Just then, I heard a key turning in the front door.I looked up. It was Brie, the woman I'd lived with for seven years, and loved for twenty.She looked at me, her smile sweet as ever."H

"Martin," Brie suddenly raised her voice."We've been married seven years. We've known each other for twenty. Doesn't that bore you to death? Every day it's the same grind, the same few things over and over. I'm sick of it!"Hearing that, my chest ached."Charles is different," she went on, her tone softening."He's young, he's full of energy, he knows how to make me happy. When I'm with him, I actually feel alive. He takes me to the movies… takes me out to watch the sunrise. And you?"I stared at her, unable to believe what I was hearing."There's nothing on that list I haven't done for you. You're the one who always said you had no time."Brie brushed her hair back, her eyes full of scorn."Now that I have him, why would I need you?"The living room went dead silent.I looked at this woman in front of me, so familiar and yet somehow a total stranger, and felt suddenly exhausted. Every sweet memory we'd shared felt like a joke now.I took a deep breath, swallowed the lump i

Back home, I spent the whole day in a fog, staring at nothing.I sat in the bedroom and pondered. I'd gone back and forth on it a few times, but I'd finally made up my mind.Once I had made up my mind, I suddenly felt hungry.I got up and went to the kitchen to fry some eggs.The eggs sizzled in the pan, and the smell drifted through the apartment.Before I knew it, I'd zoned out again, staring at the eggs, until Brie's voice cut through the silence."That smells so good. Are you frying eggs?"I turned, a little startled, to find Brie standing in the doorway."I happen to be hungry too."I almost couldn't believe it. For a second, I thought I was seeing things.Then Brie wrapped her arms around me."I'm sorry. I haven't been around much lately."I hugged her back. "It's fine.""Can you make me your cheese omelet again? I've been craving it."Brie's eyes crinkled the way they had the very first time we met."Sure."I watched her walk away, but my heart kept stinging, ove

Back when I was very young, my parents had gone off to work in another city and died in a car accident, leaving me behind.If the village elder hadn't stepped in, my uncle would never have agreed to take me in at all.So when I met Brie, it was the first time I ever knew what it felt like to be loved, the first time I understood just how happy loving someone could make a person.But now, I'd been abandoned all over again."I divorced her."My calm tone left them too stunned to react at first.It wasn't until Aunt Denise finally found her voice that she let out a shout. "What? You divorced Brie?"I finished eating, got up, and went back to my room, ignoring the two of them stamping their feet in a panic behind me.I'd assumed they'd come barge into my room and make a scene, but by dinnertime, they simply came to call me down as if nothing had happened.While I was still puzzled by that, I suddenly spotted Brie sitting at the dinner table.I froze for a moment, and it wasn't un

Tears of relief blurred out every ounce of hurt I'd been carrying.After that, things between Brie and me went back to how they used to be.But something about Brie felt off, something I couldn't quite put my finger on.She started spending less and less time at home.I was still turning it over in my head when her call interrupted my thoughts."Martin, there's a big project at the company, and I have to go handle it in person. I might not be able to come home for a while. You need to take good care of yourself while I'm gone, okay?""I know, Brie. Don't work yourself too hard either, okay? Take care of yourself. When you get back, I'll have a surprise for you."Brie kept pressing me about what the surprise was, but I held my tongue. I wanted to wait until she was home to tell her in person.After we'd made up, I went straight to the hospital.The doctors told me my odds of a successful reversal were high.It wouldn't be long before I'd fully recovered, and once I had, I coul