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Chapter Eighteen  July 12, 2018  The first contraction woke Callie at four seventeen in the morning, although she did not know it was a contraction until considerably later. At the time,…

Chapter Seventeen  April 13, 2018 — Friday  By April, Callie no longer needed the bathroom mirror to tell her she was pregnant.  For months she had checked anyway. She would turn sideways before…

Chapter Sixteen    November 20, 2017  The attorney’s office was warmer than Callie expected. She had imagined a cold room with hard chairs, though she could not have said why. Instead there was…

Chapter Fifteen  November 14th  Stuart sat on the edge of an exam bed at Ridgemont Medical with his right hand resting carefully across his lap.  It hurt a lot more now.  At…

Chapter Fourteen  November 13th,  2017 -  Late Afternoon      Callie sat in the back seat of her mother’s car and watched Ridgemont slide past the window while her parents talked about…