Chapter 18 - The Blue Blanket
Years after the hospital, the blue blanket still lived in a cedar box in my bedroom.
I no longer needed to see it every day.
But I never wanted to lose it.
When Nathan and I married, we had twelve guests.
No magazine photographs.
No corporate ballroom.
Mom cried before the ceremony even started.
Maya cried louder.
Samuel pretended he had allergies.
Before walking outside, I opened the cedar box.
I touched Daniel's blanket.
“Come with me,” I whispered.
Not physically.
I left the blanket there.
But I carried him.
Nathan never asked me to become someone untouched by the past.
That was one reason I could imagine a future beside him.
We didn't promise each other perfection.
We promised honesty.
It sounded less romantic than the vows Julian and I had once made.
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It felt infinitely safer.
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