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The Baby Monitor Was Still Streaming to My Phone

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The hospital cafeteria coffee tasted like burnt pennies, and I drank it anyway because it was three in the morning and I had four more hours on the floor.

I had picked up the night shift on purpose. We were drowning a little, the way new parents do, and daycare for Leo was going to cost more than our rent. Marcus worked days. I worked nights. We passed each other in the doorway like polite strangers, trading a sleeping baby and a quick kiss, and I told myself this was just a season. Every couple has a hard season. You put your head down and you get through it.

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