The Grandmother I Almost Was

These are sentences I don’t get to say. These are feelings I don’t get to share. Neither does my daughter.

I remember as if it were yesterday. The day my daughter sent a text with not one – but two babies in the sonogram.

Seated at my desk, and in the middle of a meeting with the school’s guidance counselor, I fully froze. My eyes, glued to the black and white picture, narrowed.

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