'From family members to strangers, everyone had something to say.'
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But amid the joy, already I was steeling myself for the comments I knew were coming. From family members to strangers, everyone had something to say: that I would be the first one into Heaven after having to raise all those boys, that at least I could reuse the clothes, that sometimes the test results were mixed up at the doctor and I should really call again.
You were my easiest delivery, born on your grandmother’s birthday, home just in time for Christmas. The brothers rushed us straight upstairs to their bathroom doorframe and insisted we mark your first line in black sharpie. Twenty-one inches tall. The bathroom doorframe now shows etchings with your name that go higher than the doorknob. You bound into the kitchen each morning, arms splayed, insisting on cracking the eggs. You get yourself dressed and fasten your own shoes .
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