The Woman Who Stayed
She was, Adaeze thought, beautiful.
Not in the abstract way of all babies being beautiful — in the specific way, the way that a particular small face was particular, was nobody else's face, was Aisha's face and nobody else's. She had Emeka's mouth, she thought. And something around the eyes that was Amaka's. And something else, some quality that was entirely neither of them and was simply hers, the particular contribution of her own specific self to the face that would spend a lifetime being hers.
She had dark hair, fine and soft.