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and watched Ethan sleep.
His mouth moved in tiny dreams.
He was so small.
And yet he had already changed everything.
Ryan came home three months later.
Not because the deployment ended—because he fought for emergency leave.
I met him at the airport with Ethan in my arms.
My hands shook the way they used to shake when my mother raised her voice.
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