After the divorce, I had no one left to lean on. Because of the child growing inside me, I swallowed my pride and did every job I could find. On the day I went into labor, I drove myself to the hospital, trembling through every red light. Minutes after my baby cried for the first time, the doctor looked down at him—and suddenly broke into tears. “This… this can’t be possible,” he whispered. – True Stories
My son was five minutes old when the doctor started crying over him. I was still shaking on the delivery bed, my hands gripping the sheets, when Dr. Samuel Hart whispered, “This… this can’t be possible.”
I thought he meant my baby was dying.
“What’s wrong with him?” I rasped.
The doctor didn’t answer. He stared at the tiny crescent-shaped birthmark under continue reading …