My Family Told Me To Call A Cab When Labor Started Then Came Asking To See The Baby

light. And something inside me, something that had been reaching toward my family my entire life, finally stopped reaching.

I stood up slowly.

I picked up my purse. My keys. My phone. The things a woman carries when she knows she is going to have to do this alone.

Then I left.

Nobody followed. Not my mother with apologies and worried questions. Not my continue reading …