Pregnant and Rejected, Now She’s Back!
I stood when the director gestured for me to stand, accepted the sound of it the way you accept weather, and thought about Jake's temperature.
One-oh-two point four.
It had been one-oh-one three days ago, and she'd thought it was a virus, and Nina had thought the same thing two weeks before that, and the pediatrician had agreed, and everyone had agreed, and the fever had come back anyway.
"Magnificent," the director said into my ear over the noise. "I told you. I told you this was the one."
"You did," I agreed, and smiled at him, and accepted the glass of champagne someone put in my hand and didn't drink it.
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