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Viable (A Letter Confessing My Own Lack Of Faith To My Newborn Son), Julie Hensley
Viable (A Letter Confessing My Own Lack Of Faith To My Newborn Son), Julie Hensley
Julie Hensley
Last January, in the minute and a half it took the ultrasound technician to pronounce that word, hours after I stood up from the sofa and felt the blood rush warm out of me, I thought about the moments when knowledge of your life was mine alone, when I had sat, heart-pounding, holding the confirmation of your presence inside me, frozen, unable or unwilling, to rise and begin the inevitable process of sharing you.