Telling My Story

I hold you, my body bleeding, unable to even shift my weight, dizzy, rolling through the hospital from where you came out of me to a room where we are supposed to recover together. “Eleanore.” I say. I finally have something to hold in my arms, to put meaning to the name that has been only a wisp in my understanding of you.

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“If you’re having thoughts of harming yourself or your baby, go to the nearest emergency room.”