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I never thought stopping for a crying baby on a cold morning would drag me from the street outside my minimum-wage cleaning job to the top floor of the same building—face-to-face with the man whose life I’d just changed. I certainly didn’t expect it to change mine. Four months earlier, I’d given birth to my son, named after his father—a man who never lived long enough to hold him. Cancer took my husband when I was five months pregnant. Fatherhood had been his greatest dream, and when the doctor announced, “It’s a boy,” I broke. Joy, grief, longing—everything came crashing…
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