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heart and humbleness that made him fall in love with her. He was so ordinary that it surprised him when she showed him any attention. She was perfect and beautiful, with hair the color of an old copper penny and eyes as blue as the sky, while he was tall and bigger than he would like to be. He knew he loved her the first time he saw her. She came with her family to church after moving to town and they sat right in front of him. He was more interested in the tresses of beautiful hair she had than what was being said by the pastor. It took him three months to finally ask her out and he was really surprised when she said yes. He was a senior and she a junior in high school and when she graduated a year after he did they were married. They were in love and best friends. He could not remember even one argument or cross word that had passed between them in the ten years they were married.
    Kim was enjoying the excitement on her husband’s face. “You will have to wait now until she is ready, I hope you are not going to be disappointed if it is a she .”
       She was certain he would care no more than she what sex it would be, not one whit. It was the first time she allowed herself to think of this baby in terms of being a girl or boy. She placed her hand over Dwight ’s and pressed. After a minute they felt the thumps they were waiting for and Dwight looked up at Kim with wide eyes. “I love you so much…Kim…I love you so much it hurts. Right now has to be the perfect moment in time for me. I cannot thank God enough for this incredible joy.”
    Touched by his passionate outburst, Kim said, “Ditto.” It was a favorite response of hers ever since watching the movie Ghost. It was enough. Their food grew cold as they basked in their joy at the life growing in Kim’s belly.
        It took a few weeks, but eventually every picture was hung and everything arranged to suit the soon to be parents. The next sonogram proved the baby was a girl and they were thrilled as the nursery took on a feminine look with Dwight doing all the work himself with very little help, determined that Kim not lift a finger. Once they knew it was a girl, gifts began to pour in from friends and family.
        Kim grew larger by the day, waddling everywhere she went. Laughing when Dwight had to pick things up for her because she could no longer bend over and she still had seven weeks to go.  It was a week later, in the middle of the night that she woke Dwight screaming in pain. He thought she was in labor but freaked when she went limp in his arms. Fear as he had never known before gripped his guts and though he got her to the hospital in record time, the doctors could not save her .
    It was an aneurysm and she was just gone. No chance to say good-bye, just gone. He hardly understood what the doctors were saying after that, moving as if in a trance. All he could do was try to grasp what was happening. There was an emergency cesarean which brought a too small, too frail baby girl from her mother’s womb and into a waiting incubator. 
    The night was almost gone. Four or five people were still there with him. One of the ladies from church worked in the ER and had called her husband and several people showed up. Now they were waiting to see if the baby would survive. Six weeks too early and weighing only three pounds, the doctors said the first twenty-four hours were critical. The thought of the baby without Kim caused his stomach to lurch and he briefly thought the baby would be better off joining its mother in death. Shame flooded him as he repented for having such a thought and when they allowed him to see her; he knew he was grateful to have this baby that Kim and he had made together. Reaching his gloved hand into the incubator he rubbed the tiny little arm, which was not much bigger than his finger.
      By mid-morning, Kim’s parents arrived, their grief so apparent that he pulled himself out of his own depressed state and tried to give them some