If you want to know someone's story, they have to tell it aloud. But every time, the telling is a little but different. It's new, even to me.

I didn't think i could possibly love another baby as much as I loved the one I'd already had," I continue. "But the strangest thing happened when I held you for the first time. It was like my heart suddenly unfolded. Like there was this secret space I didn't even know existed, and there was room for both of you." I stare at her. "Once my feelings were stretched like that, there was no going back. Without you, it just would have felt empty.

be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief.

How do you walk into someone's life again after twenty-eight years? How do you pick up, when you were too young to know where you left off.

A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up.

I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them. Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.

Like Connor, Alex protected me -and he was the only person I let close enough to do it. Like Connor, Alex could finish my sentences before I did. But unlike Connor, for whom I had ultimately come too late, I was just in time to take care of Alex.