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by this time, sure I was furious, we had talked about starting our family after college. I can still hear the panic in her voice as she frantically explained that she took her pills faithfully every day and she didn’t understand how it could happen. She was so distraught! I remember gathering her in my arms and didn’t realize I was crying until I whispered into her hair that this was the best Christmas present ever. All of the tension and fear left her body as I spoke those words. We held each other and cried for twenty minutes before I realized we were parked in a Wendy’s parking lot and had started to gain the attention of the patrons. At their looks, we started laughing hysterically, tears still running down over our faces.
“I knew then it was a gift from God. Everything happens for a reason and we were going to have a baby.”
He looked at Ana and in his eyes she saw the love and the joy he had experienced that night and she thought it was beautiful. He quietly continued.
“I cut back my class schedule to part time and got a fulltime job at a production plant to help pay for medical bills. Joyce continued with her classes, her pregnancy proceeded wonderfully and at six months, we found out we were having a beautiful little girl.”
“Her family was wonderful, buying baby furniture and paying the difference between our studio apartment and the one-bedroom apartment that we moved to for our addition. Everything was heightened and exciting and although money was tight and our schedules were full, we were so happy.”
Rick stopped speaking and she could see the moisture in his eyes. He didn’t say a word, entranced in the memories that he was recalling and she didn’t want to interrupt him but felt he was trapped in the moment. Quietly she asked, “What happened?”
Looking at the fire, he seemed lost in the depths of the memories that seemed to be flickering in the fireplace.
“She was almost seven months along and things were going great. I remember it was the middle of the night and Joyce woke me up, she was crying, she said she thought her water broke but there was a lot of blood and the pain was unbearable. I got her to the hospital in less than five minutes, they whisked her away and I didn’t see her again for an hour. The longest hour of my life.” He trailed off to almost a whisper and Ana thought she was going to have to say something again when he continued.
“The doctor came out, he actually had tears in his eyes. He told me that Joyce’s placenta had torn. They had tried to save the baby but the umbilical cord had been around her neck and she strangled.” Rick choked on the words, trying to continue the story, the pain flowing through his body as if it had just happened. “One team tried to save the baby but they never had a heartbeat. The other team worked on Joyce, trying to save her life. It all went so fast, within sixty minutes, I lost my daughter and my wife.”
Ana found herself sobbing, reliving the moment with him. “Rick, I’m so sorry.”
Having forgotten the present by being lost in the past, he realized she was still there and he quickly composed himself and looked at her. “Thank you, I am too. I will never forget them or love my wife and daughter any less, even if I fall in love again.”
Ana felt suddenly angry and came to Rick’s defense. “Life is so shitty, why do these things have to happen to good people?”
“Oh, but Ana, you are so wrong. Life is beautiful and wonderful and these things happen to good and so-called bad people. It’s not discriminatory. These are the lessons we chose to learn before we came down to earth.”
Stunned, Ana looked at Rick. “How can you say that? You lost your family in one night!”
“But I also experienced true love. Love so pure and all encompassing. I experienced the true love of a woman, wanting to marry me and bear my children. So many people don’t get that chance because they are afraid to open up, not wanting to risk
“I knew then it was a gift from God. Everything happens for a reason and we were going to have a baby.”
He looked at Ana and in his eyes she saw the love and the joy he had experienced that night and she thought it was beautiful. He quietly continued.
“I cut back my class schedule to part time and got a fulltime job at a production plant to help pay for medical bills. Joyce continued with her classes, her pregnancy proceeded wonderfully and at six months, we found out we were having a beautiful little girl.”
“Her family was wonderful, buying baby furniture and paying the difference between our studio apartment and the one-bedroom apartment that we moved to for our addition. Everything was heightened and exciting and although money was tight and our schedules were full, we were so happy.”
Rick stopped speaking and she could see the moisture in his eyes. He didn’t say a word, entranced in the memories that he was recalling and she didn’t want to interrupt him but felt he was trapped in the moment. Quietly she asked, “What happened?”
Looking at the fire, he seemed lost in the depths of the memories that seemed to be flickering in the fireplace.
“She was almost seven months along and things were going great. I remember it was the middle of the night and Joyce woke me up, she was crying, she said she thought her water broke but there was a lot of blood and the pain was unbearable. I got her to the hospital in less than five minutes, they whisked her away and I didn’t see her again for an hour. The longest hour of my life.” He trailed off to almost a whisper and Ana thought she was going to have to say something again when he continued.
“The doctor came out, he actually had tears in his eyes. He told me that Joyce’s placenta had torn. They had tried to save the baby but the umbilical cord had been around her neck and she strangled.” Rick choked on the words, trying to continue the story, the pain flowing through his body as if it had just happened. “One team tried to save the baby but they never had a heartbeat. The other team worked on Joyce, trying to save her life. It all went so fast, within sixty minutes, I lost my daughter and my wife.”
Ana found herself sobbing, reliving the moment with him. “Rick, I’m so sorry.”
Having forgotten the present by being lost in the past, he realized she was still there and he quickly composed himself and looked at her. “Thank you, I am too. I will never forget them or love my wife and daughter any less, even if I fall in love again.”
Ana felt suddenly angry and came to Rick’s defense. “Life is so shitty, why do these things have to happen to good people?”
“Oh, but Ana, you are so wrong. Life is beautiful and wonderful and these things happen to good and so-called bad people. It’s not discriminatory. These are the lessons we chose to learn before we came down to earth.”
Stunned, Ana looked at Rick. “How can you say that? You lost your family in one night!”
“But I also experienced true love. Love so pure and all encompassing. I experienced the true love of a woman, wanting to marry me and bear my children. So many people don’t get that chance because they are afraid to open up, not wanting to risk
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