The twins are growing now.
They are curious and energetic and full of the kind of joy that makes every hard thing worth enduring. They do not yet know the full story of how their earliest months unfolded.
Someday, if they want to know, I will tell them.
I will tell them that their mother was exhausted and heartbroken and sometimes scared.
And I will tell them that none of that stopped her for a single day.
Because when you are the person your children are counting on, stopping is simply not something you consider.
You just keep going.
And eventually – not always dramatically, not always publicly, but eventually — the truth finds its way into the light.
