Three months after that discovery, Emily gave birth to a healthy girl and gave her the name Mary, in honor of their mother together. Three weeks later, Sarah gave birth to her son, Noah. Dr. Harris later explained that the child examination findings were encouraging and that the tests had not detected serious genetic problems. Mary and Noah continued to grow up together, just as their mothers had planned before the truth came out.
For Sarah and Emily, however, that story could never again be just an ordinary friendly story. Their children share the same biological father, and their mothers are sisters who grew up as best friends, unaware of their own family circle. From now on, every childhood memory, every look and every old sentence from family conversations fit into the bigger picture that they are just learning to accept. Their friendship remained the same, but it gained a new depth, related to the family, the loss and truth that arrived late, but still in time to change the future of their children.
