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insurance—”
“I’ll cover it,” I said.
My daughter turned to me for the first time since we arrived.
“You don’t have to,” she said quietly.
“I know,” I replied. “But I’m going to.”
She studied me, as if trying to understand who I was now—if I was someone she could trust.

That night, we sat in the hospital room, watching the baby continue reading …
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