The Truth at the Funeral
The funeral home smelled of lilies and stagnation. It was a thick, cloying scent that coated the back of my throat, tasting like old water and performative grief. Two tiny white coffins sat at the front of the chapel, heartbreakingly small, each one barely three feet long.
My twin boys, Oliver and Lucas, had been alive just five days ago. They were seven months old. They had just started laughing—that wet, hiccupping baby laugh that makes the whole world stop spinning. Now, they were gone, victims of what the coroner had provisionally ruled Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, striking twice in one night. A statistical anomaly. A tragedy of astronomical odds.
I stood in the receiving line, my legs feeling like they were filled with lead, accepting condolences from people who wouldn’t look me in the eye. I could feel their judgment radiating off them like heat. How does a mother let two babies die? What did she do wrong?
My mother-in-law, Diane Morrison, stood a few feet away, the center of gravity in the room. She wore mourning black from head to toe, complete with a dramatic lace veil that obscured her face but not her theatrical sobbing. She dabbed at dry eyes with a monogrammed handkerchief while relatives patted her shoulders, murmuring sympathies about the “burden” she now carried.
My husband, Trevor, stood beside her. He looked like a man hollowed out by a spoon. His jaw was set in a hard, brittle line, and every time he glanced my way, his eyes were cold. He wasn’t standing with me. He was standing with her. He was the loyal guard dog, protecting his mother’s grief while his wife stood alone in the tundra of her own loss.
I knew differently. My body knew it. My heart knew it. The police said SIDS. My instinct screamed murder. But I had no proof. Just a hollow ache in my womb and the memory of Diane insisting, practically begging, to take the twins for the night so I could “get some rest.”
Pastor John began the service. His voice was a drone, speaking of God’s plan and heaven’s newest angels. Each word felt like a serrated knife dragging across my skin. My four-year-old daughter, Emma, sat beside me. She was swinging her legs nervously, picking at the hem of her scratchy black dress. She had been at Diane’s house that night, too. She was the only survivor of the sleepover.
Then, Diane stood up to give the eulogy.
The air in the room shifted. She approached the podium with slow, deliberate steps, gripping the wood until her knuckles turned white. She began by speaking about her “precious grandbabies” and how she had prayed for their souls. It was standard, performative grief.
But then, her tone changed. It grew sharp. Calculated.
“These babies were innocent,” Diane said, her voice projecting clearly to the back of the room. “Pure. Untouched by the sin of this world. Sometimes… sometimes God takes the innocent to spare them from what lies ahead. He sees the rot before it sets in. He sees the environment they would be raised in.”
The implication hung in the air like poison gas. The murmuring in the pews stopped.
“He knows what kind of influences might have shaped these boys had they lived,” Diane continued, her eyes boring into mine through the lace of her veil. “God took them because He knew what kind of mother they had. He saw the future, and He showed them mercy.”
My vision went red. A roar of sound filled my ears—the rushing of my own blood.
“Can you at least shut up on this day?”
The scream tore out of my throat before I could stop it. It was raw, animalistic, desperate.
The chapel fell into a silence so profound it felt like the vacuum of space. Diane’s face contorted behind her veil. The mask of the grieving grandmother slipped, revealing the predator beneath. She descended from the podium with shocking speed for a woman who claimed to be frail with sorrow.
Before I could flinch, her hand connected with my cheek. Crack. The slap echoed off the vaulted ceiling.
The pain didn’t even register before she grabbed a handful of my hair, her fingers twisting cruelly into the roots. She yanked my head down, forcing me toward the nearest coffin—Oliver’s.
“You ungrateful wretch!” she hissed, slamming my forehead onto the polished wood of my son’s casket.
The hollow thud made Emma scream—a high, piercing sound of terror.
Diane leaned in, her breath hot and smelling of peppermint and rot against my ear. “You better shut up if you don’t want to end up in there with them.”
I struggled, but her grip was iron. I looked to Trevor. Help me. Please, help me.
Trevor moved. He grabbed my arm, his fingers digging into my bicep hard enough to bruise, and yanked me backward—not to save me from her, but to pull me away from her.
“Get lost this instant!” he shouted, his face twisted with rage directed entirely at me. “How dare you disrespect my mother at my sons’ funeral? Get out!”
I stared at him, the man I had married six years ago. The man who had promised to protect me. In the defining moment of our lives, he chose his mother. The betrayal cut deeper than the slap, deeper than the grief. It severed the last thread connecting me to sanity.
Trevor’s Aunt Pamela moved to grab Emma, trying to usher her away from the scene. “Come on, sweetie, let’s go outside.”
But Emma twisted away with a sudden, fierce determination. She ran not to me, but to the altar, grabbing the heavy velvet fabric of Pastor John’s robe with her small hands.
The pastor looked down, stunned. “Emma?”
My daughter turned to face the congregation. Her small chest was heaving. She looked at her father, then at her grandmother, her eyes wide with a terrifying clarity.
“Pastor John?” Emma’s voice rang out, clear as a bell in the silent church. “Should I tell everyone what Grandma put in the baby bottles?”
The Confession
The silence that followed wasn’t just quiet; it was the absence of air. It was the kind of silence that precedes an earthquake. Every head turned toward the small girl in the black dress.
Diane’s face drained of color. She took a step toward Emma, her hand outstretched. “Emma, sweetheart, you’re confused. You’re traumatized. Come to Grandma.”
“No!” Emma shouted, shrinking back behind the pastor’s legs. “I’m not confused! I saw you!”
“Saw what, Emma?” Trevor asked, his voice shaking. He looked at his mother, then at his daughter, the first crack appearing in his armor of denial.
“I saw Grandma in the kitchen,” Emma said, talking fast now, the words tumbling out like she had been holding them in for days. “I came downstairs because I was thirsty. Grandma was talking on the phone. She said mean things. She said Mommy was bad. She said the babies would be better off in Heaven.”
“That is a lie!” Diane shrieked, her composure shattering. “She is making this up!”
“Then she took the white powder,” Emma continued, her voice trembling but loud. “From the jug in the garage. The blue jug with the skull on it. She put the white powder in the bottles. Special bottles. She mixed it with the milk and shook it up real good. She said it was ‘sleeping medicine’ so Mommy and Daddy wouldn’t have to worry about money anymore.”
My heart stopped. Every molecule of oxygen left the room. The blue jug in the garage.
Trevor stepped forward, his face a mask of forced calm that was rapidly crumbling. “Mom… what is she talking about? What blue jug?”
“Nothing!” Diane looked around wildly, seeking an ally, but the relatives who had been nodding along with her eulogy were now backing away, horror dawning on their faces. “She’s four years old! She’s making up stories for attention!”
“I saw the blue jug,” Emma insisted, crying now. “She gave me cookies and told me it was our secret game. She said if I told anyone, Mommy would go away forever.”
Pastor John moved between Diane and Emma, his expression turning to stone. “Mrs. Morrison. I think we need to pause this service. Someone call the police.”
“You will do no such thing!” Diane screamed. She looked deranged now, the veil torn, her eyes manic. “I am a pillar of this community! I have attended this church for thirty years! You would believe a confused brat over me?”
“I believe,” the pastor said quietly, “that this child knows things she shouldn’t know. And if there is even a chance she is telling the truth, those babies deserve justice.”
Trevor’s Aunt Pamela already had her phone to her ear. “I’m calling 911.”
Diane tried to run. She actually bolted for the side exit, her heels clacking on the marble floor. But three men from the congregation—Trevor’s cousins—blocked the doors, their arms crossed.
She turned back, cornered. And then, the mask dropped completely. The grieving grandmother vanished. In her place stood something cold, vicious, and utterly devoid of humanity.
“They were ruining everything!” The confession exploded from her lips, shocking everyone into paralysis.
She pointed a shaking finger at me. “She was never good enough for my son! Never! She trapped him. First with the girl, and we tolerated it. But twins? Two more mouths? Two more reasons for Trevor to work himself to death and ignore us? To ignore his own parents?”
Trevor sank to his knees, a guttural sound ripping from his throat. “Mom… what are you saying?”
“I did what needed to be done!” Diane’s voice took on a manic, self-righteous edge. “A little antifreeze mixed with the formula. Sweet. Tasteless. Just enough to stop their hearts gently. They didn’t suffer! I made sure of that! I’m not a monster! I just gave them to God before they could become a burden!”
The chapel erupted. Screams. Gasps. I couldn’t breathe. I couldn’t think. Antifreeze. She had poisoned my sons with antifreeze because she thought they were expensive.
The police arrived within minutes. The sirens wailed outside, a discordant harmony to the chaos inside. Diane tried to recant immediately, claiming grief-induced hysteria, but the damage was done. Too many witnesses. A recorded confession on someone’s phone.
They arrested her in front of the altar.
The Investigation
The investigation moved with terrifying speed. Because of Emma’s testimony and Diane’s outburst, the police ordered an immediate exhumation of the bodies—bodies that hadn’t even been buried yet. I had to sign the papers on the hood of a police cruiser outside the funeral home, my hand shaking so badly I could barely form my signature.
Forty-eight hours later, the toxicology reports came back.
Detective Sarah Mitchell sat me down in her office. She looked tired. She had kids of her own, she told me.
“High levels of ethylene glycol,” she said softly. “In both boys. It confirms everything Emma said. We also found the jug in Diane’s garage, fingerprints and all. And her search history… God, Sarah. She looked up ‘dosage for infants.'”
I didn’t cry. I was past crying. I felt a cold, hard stone form in the center of my chest.
Trevor tried to call me that night. He was staying with his father, Robert. I let it go to voicemail. He left a message, sobbing, apologizing, begging to see Emma.
I deleted it. He had grabbed me. He had told me to get lost. He had chosen the murderer over the mother.
The trial date was set. And I knew, with a certainty that frightened me, that I was going to burn their entire world to the ground.
The Trial
The trial of The State vs. Diane Morrison became a national spectacle. News vans camped on my lawn. Headlines screamed about the “Granny Killer.”
I sat in the courtroom every single day. I wanted her to see me. I wanted her to look into the eyes of the woman whose life she had tried to dismantle.
Diane’s defense attorney, a shark named Patricia Hendrix, tried everything. She argued insanity. She argued that the confession at the funeral was the result of a “psychotic break” induced by grief. She tried to paint Diane as a confused, elderly woman who had snapped under the pressure of caring for a growing family.
But the prosecution was methodical. They played the 911 call. They played the video recorded by a relative in the pews—the video where Diane justified the murder because the twins were a “burden.”
But the linchpin was Emma.
The judge allowed Emma to testify via closed-circuit television to spare her the trauma of being in the same room as Diane. I sat in the viewing room with her, holding her hand while she answered the prosecutor’s gentle questions.
“She put the powder in the bottles,” Emma said, her voice small but steady on the courtroom monitors. “She told me it was magic powder to help Mommy and Daddy save money.”
The jury, twelve strangers who held my fate in their hands, looked physically ill.
Then came the defense’s turn. Patricia Hendrix tried to gently discredit Emma, suggesting that perhaps she had been coached.
“Emma,” Hendrix asked, “did your mommy tell you to say these things about Grandma?”
Emma looked directly into the camera. “No. Mommy cried when I told her. Mommy threw up. Grandma told me to say nothing. Grandma said it was our secret.”
That was the nail in the coffin.
When Trevor took the stand, he was a broken man. He had lost twenty pounds. He looked like a ghost. The prosecutor asked him about his mother’s attitude toward our family.
“She… she hated the idea of twins,” Trevor whispered, unable to look at his mother. “She told me it was a mistake. She said God would find a way to fix it if I wouldn’t.”
“And at the funeral,” the prosecutor pressed, “when your wife was grieving, whose side did you take?”
“My mother’s,” Trevor choked out. “I… I didn’t know. I thought…”
“You thought your wife was the problem,” the prosecutor finished.
The jury deliberated for only three hours.
When the bailiff read the verdict—Guilty on two counts of first-degree murder—Diane didn’t cry. She didn’t scream. She just stared at me with pure, unadulterated hatred. She was sentenced to two consecutive life terms without the possibility of parole.
As they led her away in handcuffs, she passed by the table where I sat. She leaned in, just slightly.
“You’ll never be free of me,” she whispered.
I looked her dead in the eye. “I already am. But you? You’re going to die in a cage.”
The Civil War
But the criminal trial was just the beginning. I wasn’t done.
Trevor’s father, Robert, had stood by Diane the entire time. He had paid for her defense. He had given interviews claiming his wife was a saint. He had known about her hatred for me and done nothing to stop it.
He had money. Millions in real estate and retirement funds.
I sued them. I sued Diane for wrongful death, and I sued Robert for negligence and emotional distress. I hired the most aggressive civil attorney in the state, James Cardwell.
“We are going to take everything,” James told me. “The house, the cars, the investments. We are going to leave them with nothing but the clothes on their backs.”
Robert tried to settle. He came to my door one rainy Tuesday, looking old and pathetic.
“Please,” he begged, standing on my porch. “I didn’t know. I swear I didn’t know she would do this. Don’t destroy me, Sarah. I’m an old man.”
“You knew she hated me,” I said, blocking the door. “You heard her call my children burdens. You laughed it off. Your silence gave her permission. My sons are dead because you were too cowardly to stand up to your wife.”
“I’ll give you half,” he pleaded. “Half of everything.”
“I don’t want half, Robert. I want it all. I want you to feel a fraction of the helplessness I felt when I put my babies in the ground.”
I slammed the door.
The civil jury awarded me four million dollars. Robert was forced to liquidate everything. His business, his home—the home where my babies were poisoned—was sold. He moved into a subsidized one-bedroom apartment across town.
Trevor was collateral damage. With his family’s fortune gone and his reputation destroyed, he spiraled. He lost his job. He drank. He tried to see Emma, but the court-appointed psychologist ruled that his presence was detrimental to her healing. She was terrified of him. To her, he was the man who yelled at Mommy when Grandma was hurting her.
Eventually, Trevor signed over full custody. He moved three states away to start over where nobody knew his last name.
I didn’t feel guilty. Not for a second.
The Aftermath
In the months following the trial, I learned things about Diane I had never known. Things that made the horror even deeper.
Detective Mitchell called me one afternoon. “We found her diary,” she said quietly. “In her bedroom. It goes back years.”
“What did it say?”
“She planned this, Sarah. Not for months. For years. She wrote about you being ‘unworthy’ from the moment Trevor introduced you. She wrote about Emma being ‘manageable’ as an only child. But when you got pregnant with the twins…”
The detective’s voice broke. “She wrote that God was testing her. That she needed to be strong enough to ‘prune the family tree.’ She researched antifreeze dosages for nine months. She practiced mixing it with formula to get the consistency right. She timed it for when Trevor would be out of town on business.”
I sat down hard, the phone pressed to my ear.
“She wasn’t impulsive,” Mitchell continued. “She was methodical. Calculating. She wanted you to be blamed. She wanted the SIDS ruling to stand so you’d spend the rest of your life being whispered about, suspected.”
“But Emma saw her,” I whispered.
“Emma saved your life,” Mitchell said. “If she hadn’t spoken up, Diane would have gotten away with it. And based on what’s in that diary, she wouldn’t have stopped. She wrote about Emma needing ‘correction’ too.”
The phone slipped from my hand.
Emma had saved us both.
Three Years Later
Three years have passed since the funeral.
Emma is seven now. She is resilient, brilliant, and kind, though she still has nightmares about white powder and blue jugs. We see Dr. Hernandez every week. We talk about “big feelings” and how adults can make terrible choices that aren’t a child’s fault.
We moved away from that town. We changed our last names. We are no longer Morrisons. We are just Sarah and Emma, a team of two.
I used the settlement money to buy a house with a massive backyard—far away from the whispers, far away from the ghosts. It’s a small craftsman on three acres, surrounded by woods. Emma picked it out herself.
“The trees are like brothers,” she said, pointing at the forest. “Lots of them, all protecting each other.”
Last spring, we planted a garden.
“This one is for Oliver,” Emma said, patting the dirt around a sapling maple tree. “And this one is for Lucas.”
We planted two trees side by side. They are growing strong and tall, their roots digging deep into the earth, claiming their space.
Every year on their birthday, we have a picnic under the trees. We eat cupcakes. We talk about them. I tell Emma that Oliver had a serious frown when he was thinking, and Lucas had a laugh that sounded like a bird chirping. We keep them alive in the only way we can—through memory and love.
Emma asks questions sometimes. Hard questions.
“Do you miss Daddy?” she asked last month, out of nowhere, while we were making dinner.
I paused, choosing my words carefully. “I miss who I thought he was. But the real him? The one who chose his mother over us? No. I don’t miss him.”
“Good,” Emma said, returning to her coloring. “Because he was mean to you.”
“Yes, he was.”
“Do you think he’s sorry?”
I thought about the occasional emails that still trickle in. The birthday cards returned unopened. The child support payments that arrive like clockwork, his only remaining connection to the daughter he abandoned.
“Maybe,” I said. “But sorry doesn’t fix everything.”
“Grandma isn’t sorry,” Emma observed with the brutal clarity only children possess.
“No,” I agreed. “She isn’t.”
I know this because I made the mistake of reading one of Diane’s letters from prison. She’s written dozens. I burn them now without opening them, but that first one…
She blamed me. For seducing her son. For “forcing” her hand. For Emma’s “lies.” She said she was the real victim, imprisoned for trying to save her family from my influence.
I burned that letter too. But the words stayed with me for weeks.
Dr. Hernandez helped me process it. “Narcissists never accept responsibility,” she explained. “In Diane’s mind, she’s a martyr. She’ll die believing she was right.”
“Let her,” I said.
And I meant it.
The Question Everyone Asks
People ask me if I have closure. They ask if seeing Diane in prison brings me peace.
The truth is, there is no closure for the death of a child. There is no “moving on.” There is only moving forward. The hole in my heart is exactly the shape of two little boys, and it will never be filled.
But I am not broken.
I built something from the ashes. Emma and I have a life now—a real life, not the performance we were living before.
We have traditions. Friday night movie nights where we build blanket forts and eat popcorn for dinner. Saturday morning pancakes in the shape of animals. Sunday hikes in the woods behind our house, where Emma collects interesting rocks and I identify birds.
We have friends. Real friends. People who know our story and love us anyway. Rachel, my neighbor, who brings over soup when Emma has a cold. Marcus, the librarian, who saves new books for Emma and sends her home with a tote bag full of adventures. Dr. Hernandez, who has become more than a therapist—she’s family.
We have safety. Locks on every door. An alarm system. A restraining order that ensures neither Diane nor Robert can ever contact us again, even through third parties. Emma knows what to do if she ever sees Trevor—run to the nearest adult, scream for help, don’t engage.
We practice these drills the way other families practice fire safety.
Because the truth is, I will never fully trust the world again. Diane shattered that. She taught me that the people who smile and play grandmother can be monsters. That evil doesn’t always look like evil. That sometimes it wears pearls and volunteers at church and poisons babies while humming hymns.
But she also taught me something else: I am stronger than I ever imagined.
Diane’s Legacy
Last month, I got a call from Detective Mitchell.
“Diane had a stroke,” she said. “She’s in the prison hospital. Paralyzed on her left side. The doctors don’t think she’ll recover much function.”
I waited, feeling nothing.
“Her attorney called. She wants to see Emma. One last time. She says she’s dying and wants to apologize.”
The audacity made me laugh—a harsh, bitter sound.
“No,” I said simply.
“I told them you’d say that,” Mitchell replied. “But I had to ask. For the record.”
“She doesn’t get to traumatize my daughter one more time,” I said. “She doesn’t get a deathbed redemption. She doesn’t get closure. She gets exactly what she gave my sons—nothing.”
There was a long pause. Then Mitchell said quietly, “Good.”
Robert died two months ago. Heart attack. I found out from a newspaper obituary. Trevor didn’t contact me. Didn’t ask if Emma wanted to attend the funeral.
I was grateful.
I didn’t go. I didn’t send flowers. I felt nothing—not satisfaction, not grief, just a distant acknowledgment that another chapter had closed.
Emma saw the obituary on my laptop. I hadn’t meant to leave it open.
“Is that Grandpa Robert?” she asked.
“Yes.”
“The one who knew Grandma was bad but didn’t stop her?”
“Yes.”
Emma thought for a moment. “I’m glad he’s dead,” she said matter-of-factly, then went back to her homework.
I probably should have corrected her. Taught her about forgiveness, about not speaking ill of the dead.
But I didn’t.
Because she was right.
The Trees
I look out the kitchen window. Emma is running through the grass, chasing a butterfly between the two maple trees. She is laughing—a loud, free, joyous sound.
The trees are taller now. Their branches reach toward each other, not quite touching but close. In a few more years, they’ll intertwine. They’ll grow together, their roots tangled beneath the earth, supporting each other.
Emma calls them the Brother Trees.
She talks to them sometimes. I watch from the window as she sits beneath their shade, her back against Oliver’s trunk, reading out loud. Updating them on her life. Telling them about school, about the mean boy in her class who pushed her but apologized, about the frog she found by the creek.
“I told Oliver and Lucas about my A on the science test,” she announced yesterday, bursting through the door. “I think they’re proud of me.”
“I know they are,” I said, pulling her into a hug.
Because they are. Wherever they are—in heaven, in memory, in the DNA that courses through Emma’s veins—they are proud of their sister. The sister who was brave enough to speak truth when the adults around her were drowning in lies.
People ask if Emma understands what she did. If she grasps the weight of her testimony.
Dr. Hernandez says she does, in the way children understand—completely and simply, without the complicated moral gymnastics adults perform.
“I saved Mommy,” Emma told her therapist. “Grandma was bad. I told the truth. Mommy lived.”
That’s her narrative. Clean. Clear. True.
I don’t complicate it. She’ll have the rest of her life to grapple with the nuances, to process the trauma, to understand that the woman who gave her cookies and called her “sweetheart” was also a murderer.
For now, she knows she’s safe. She knows she’s loved. She knows her brothers are gone but not forgotten.
That’s enough.
What I Would Tell Diane
Sometimes, late at night when Emma is asleep and the house is quiet, I think about what I would say to Diane if I could.
Not because she deserves my words. Not because I need her to understand.
But because I need to name what she took from me.
I would tell her:
You didn’t just kill my sons. You killed the mother I was becoming. You killed the grandmother I would have watched my boys become fathers themselves one day. You killed Christmas mornings watching them tear into presents. You killed first days of school and baseball games and graduations. You killed the future.
You killed the version of Trevor who might have been a good father, a good husband. You twisted him so thoroughly that he couldn’t see his own wife being assaulted without rushing to your defense.
You killed Emma’s innocence. She will never trust easily again. She will always wonder if the friendly old lady at the grocery store is hiding poison in her purse.
You killed my faith in family. In the idea that blood means safety.
But here’s what you didn’t kill:
You didn’t kill me. You tried. God, how you tried. You wanted me blamed, destroyed, erased. You wanted me to crumble under the weight of suspicion and guilt.
Instead, you forged me into something you never expected.
I survived.
I not only survived—I won.
I took everything. Your freedom. Your money. Your son. Your legacy. Your comfort. Your dignity.
You sit in a cell, paralyzed and alone, while I sit in a house filled with light and laughter.
You wanted to break me.
You made me unbreakable.
The Greatest Revenge
Diane tried to destroy me. She tried to paint me as an unfit mother, to erase me from the narrative of my own family. She wanted to break me so completely that I would crumble.
Instead, she forged me into steel.
She sits in a cell today, staring at concrete walls, forgotten by the world. Her husband is dead. Her son is estranged and broken. Her legacy is ash.
But mine?
I look out the kitchen window. Emma is running through the grass, chasing a butterfly between the two maple trees. She is laughing—a loud, free, joyous sound.
I survived. My daughter survived. We are building a life filled with color and light, a life that Diane Morrison can never touch again.
And that, in the end, is the greatest revenge of all. To live well. To be happy. To be the mother she said I could never be.
My boys are gone, but they saved us. In their death, they revealed the monster in our midst before she could take Emma too. They gave us the truth. They gave us a chance to escape.
I believe that. I have to believe that. It’s the only way to make sense of the senseless.
I place my hand on the glass of the window, watching my daughter play in the shadow of her brothers’ trees.
“We’re okay,” I whisper to the empty room. “We made it.”
And for the first time in a long time, I believe it.
Tomorrow, Emma starts second grade. She picked out her own backpack—purple with silver stars. She’s nervous but excited.
I’ll walk her to the bus stop. I’ll take the obligatory first-day-of-school photo under the Brother Trees. I’ll wave as the bus pulls away, my heart in my throat, trusting the world with my most precious thing.
And when she comes home, we’ll make cookies. We’ll do homework at the kitchen table. We’ll feed the birds in the backyard and read stories before bed.
We’ll live.
That’s what Diane couldn’t kill. Our ability to keep living, keep loving, keep growing toward the light.
The maple trees sway in the breeze, their leaves rustling like whispered secrets.
I press my palm to the glass.
“We made it,” I say again, this time louder. “We survived. We won.”
And somewhere, in the space between memory and hope, I swear I hear two baby boys laughing.
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