![]() ![]() An ambulance intercepted a black SUV out on old Spring Place Road. I look up to see my dad coming down the hall towards me with his phone to his ear. I don’t know what I will do if something has happened to her. “Where the fuck is she?” I put my head between my knees, trying to breathe. When they open my door and take Kara and my nephew, I feel my first real sense of relief since this day started. “Thank God,” I sigh, as we pull off the road. I look through the windshield and can see the lights of an ambulance racing towards us. That’s when I hear the most beautiful sound I have ever heard in my whole life. The cord is still attached, and I know that I need to find a way to tie it off and cut it. Kara is laying back against the door breathing heavily. Everything happens so quickly after she pushes that I’m not even sure I remember how the baby got into my arms, just that he is there and crying. There is nothing, so I rip my shirt off over my head, and hold it out, ready to catch him. ![]() ![]() ![]() I look around for something to wrap the baby in. I look down just in time to see a little face. Then she screams so loud that I think my eardrums burst. Her foot goes back in my stomach, this time a little harder than the last, making me grunt in pain. “I don’t think you have much to go,” I say, trying to be encouraging. I rub her knee the interior lights come on, so I place her pants across her legs so no one else can see what I’m seeing. “What?” one of the guys from the front seat ask. ![]()
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