I was still recovering from a long, exhausting delivery when my husband finally walked into the h0spital room and leaned over our newborn daughter.

“You really don’t see it?”

That was when I realized Daniel wasn’t frightened by Emily.

He had recognized something.

Something connected to a part of his past he had never shared with me.

Daniel and I had been married for four years, and almost from the beginning, we dreamed about becoming parents.